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    "content": "am humbled and grateful for this opportunity. True to the words of our national anthem, may, “service be our earnest endeavour” and service to the people of this country. I am also very pleased to see the great number of women and young people elected, just as the President noted in his Speech. I would like to encourage the ladies and gentlemen, like my friend Sen. Mwaura who served as nominated Members, that even nomination is a great path. We have very many great leaders who have been elected to this House. We have His Excellency the President of Kenya who began as a nominated Member of Parliament, the Leader of Minority; I am not sure whether he still is Sen. Wetangula who was nominated to parliament, the Senator of Nairobi who was a nominated Member of Parliament in the last Parliament. It is a path to leadership. We also have the indomitable Sen. Mugo who was nominated proudly by Jubilee but who I was pleased to vote for before in 2007 in Dagorretti Constituency. She was first elected in 1997 and so all of us are elected. If you read the Constitution properly, whether elected through universal suffrage or through party lists, all of us are equal and we should be able to discharge our duties with that realisation. I will also join my colleagues who have come here via the National Assembly in the last term in qualifying some statements that have been made previously. Mr. Speaker, Sir, ‘ Nyumba ya Wazee’ is a term of respect. If anybody called it such, I remember it was Sen. Linturi who christened this House such. There is a young musician called Nyashinski, these are our modern day poets, who has a song called"
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