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    "id": 756585,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Richard Maoka Maore",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Igembe North",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I also take this moment to record my support for the Speech by His Excellency the President on 12th September, 2017. I begin by thanking the people of Igembe North for electing me to this august House for the fourth time, especially this time after an interval of 10 years. The other point I would like to highlight is what was contained in that special address, and the tone and content of the President’s Speech. If you check, you will realise that it did not expound a lot of issues about governance for the next one year. It was very specific about the national unity that we need. The presidency, as defined in our Constitution, happens to be the confluence on which all the other arms of the Government meet. All the Bills that we pass here, as the Legislature, usually end up being signed by the President. All the judges who get appointed to the Supreme Court, or the High Court, end up being sworn in by the President. So, the presidency is unique. That is why we need to emphasise on the need for unity and talk to our colleagues on the other side of the House. We need to tell them that we do not have a spare country. We do not know what theory or ideology of governance you would use to go to the Supreme Court, get a ruling and when you are walking home out of that ruling, you start stammering with what you heard there."
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