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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Samson Ndindi Nyoro",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Kiharu",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to catch your eye. I am Ndindi Nyoro, Member for Kiharu Constituency. First, I want to thank the people of Kiharu for giving me this opportunity to come to this House. Kiharu Constituency, as Members know, is a constituency that is in the history of this country because of leaders like Kenneth Matiba. I also want to congratulate the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker. I want to make it very clear that you were elected on merit. No one was more qualified than you to sit where you are seated. I also want to congratulate the President, especially for winning the first round, and we are sure and almost certain that there will be a repeat of the same, even as we go to the 17th of next month. I also want to congratulate all Members who made it to the 12th Parliament. I am sure we make a very good lot and a very good collage from the young to the old with experience and the whole diversity of this country. Going to the President’s Speech, I have gone through it and I will not belabour the points that have been made by my colleagues. I want to talk about one thing that the President said that to me, as an economist, sets the whole basis of anything else he could have spoken in this House. That is the issue of peace and unity of this country. We have seen many countries grow and then disintegrate by the demise of peace. For the President to speak so loudly and clearly about peace in this country, even as we go through this electioneering period, it was an exhibition of statesmanship. Even as he talked about respect, he also talked about the separation of power among the three arms of Government. This is a critical constitutional principle in protecting the liberty of the people. I am sure we are not blind to the fact that we never saw any member of the Judiciary yesterday as the President spoke to us. Kenyans are not happy because we feel, especially judging by the past that we are sinking into some kind of judicial autocracy. The President has the mandate from millions of Kenyans who made a decision before, but the same Judiciary has gone against the grain and pronounced otherwise. As Members of the 12th Parliament, I am sure we will relook into such matters. We have three arms of Government. Secondly, our institutions derive their legitimacy from the people of Kenya directly, namely, the elected leaders and the Executive through the President and the Deputy President. We have to relook into issues like the judgment by the Supreme Court. (Technical hitch) As I finish, we have to come together in this House, stand for our democracy without allowing any person to intimidate us."
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