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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Hassan Oda Hulufo",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Isiolo North",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for this opportunity. I am Hon. Hassan Hulufo from Isiolo North. I would like to start by thanking the people of Isiolo North for giving me an opportunity to represent them in this august House. As earlier speakers have said, it is not easy to make it to this House. I tried in 2013 but I was not successful. I kept putting more effort. Out of eight people, six very able and competent men and a lady, the people had confidence in me and my ability to represent them. I thank them for that. I would also like to thank the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker for being elected to guide this House for the next five years. I would also like to thank those who have had an opportunity to be elected to lead us in the Majority Party starting with the Leader of the Majority Party, Hon. Duale, the Chief Whip and the Deputy Chief Whip. As for the President’s Speech, any man or woman in position where His Excellency is today, would not have found it easy to give the kind of Speech he gave. It was full of wisdom. He showed that he is a courageous man. In his first term, he made history by being the first sitting President to honour summons of a foreign court. He was innocent, but he agreed to honour summons from the International Criminal Court. At the end of the day, it was very clear to everybody that the case was built on quicksand and he was acquitted. We say that numbers do not lie and the President was voted for with overwhelming numbers. As much as we respect the verdict of the Supreme Court, unless they tell us something different in the detailed ruling, they only mentioned matters of procedure on how forms 34A, 34B and 34C were transmitted to the tallying centre in Nairobi. They did not dispute the numbers which the President garnered. I am sure come 17th October he will even have more numbers. Coming to the content of the Speech, it was very impressive especially the aspect of peace, the need to unite our people and respecting the rule of law which he has demonstrated. In as much as he did not agree with the ruling, he had to agree with what the court decided. I would like to call upon the rest of the Members to kindly go out there and ensure that we vote for President Uhuru Kenyatta even with overwhelming numbers to put this matter beyond any reasonable doubt. The only thing which I expected to be addressed in the Speech, which I did not hear and I am sure we are going to take up with the Cabinet Secretaries as the representatives of the people, is the issue of drought which is affecting our people. As people’s representatives, we are engaging Cabinet Secretaries (CSs), Principal Secretaries (PSs) and directors of various State The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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