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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Oyugi",
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        "legal_name": "Augostinho Neto Oyugi",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, let me thank you first in person for the friendship that you have accorded me, the support and the various opportunities that we have had to exchange. In this Parliament, I made several friendships across the board. I made friends in the Parliamentary Caucus on Human Rights. This is the group of people who became my family and people with whom I had a good chance. When we were coming to this Parliament, I set upon myself a chance to travel to all the 290 constituencies. I did not make it. I did 102. I made several friends who I visited them in various capacities. It was good. It was nice being with Priscilla in Nyeri. It was also nice being with Ng'eno in Emurua Dikirr. It was nice being with the Member for Matuga in Matuga. Those are some of the friendships that we will cherish. It was nice travelling and discovering. It is my experience in Wajir West where there were clashes between various communities from Mandera and Wajir that was an eye opener. Most Members of Parliament were wondering what we were doing in that part of the country whereas some of us were not pastoralists. It was really nice. It is those things that you do for colleagues. When there was an attack in Baragoi, being there for Members of Parliament from Samburu side; people with whom we had a friendship, was really nice. As a Member of Parliament, as a Member of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs and as a Member of the Delegated Committee on Legislation, it was nice being in those committees. As a Member of Parliament, I was able to move two Private Members Bills namely the Health Records and Information Managers Bill and the Refugees Bill. That is why I was thanking Mr. Njoroge who is seated there because he knows how difficult it was negotiating some of those things in several Committees. I thank him for all the support. Time is very short but I would like to say two things. One, sometime this Parliament fell short of good behaviour. We did not behave as ordinary Members of Parliament. I hope that in the next Parliament, we should carry some very good behaviour even if it is exciting or members of the political party leadership look at you with good eyes. I really think we should still accord ourselves good behaviour. The last thing is that being a new Parliament and a new Constitution, I think members were excited with the tyranny of numbers. I hope that the next Parliament will look forward and know the role is oversight regardless of where the numbers tilt so that the legislature can stick to its parliamentary role of being an oversight body. Hon. Speaker, I wish all my colleagues the very best in the elections and I hope the people of Ndhiwa---"
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