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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Isaac Waihenya Ndirangu",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Roysambu Constituency",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I also wish to join my colleagues in congratulating you and our Deputy Speaker on your election. I also want to extend congratulations to all the new Members of Parliament and the ones who are continuing with me. Special congratulations and maximum respect to the people of Roysambu who have returned me to Parliament for a second term. This is my third term in Parliament, having served in the Sixth Parliament, the 11th Parliament and now serving in the 12th Parliament. I thank the people of Roysambu, starting from Soweto all the way to Marurui, Kenyatta University (KU), United States International University (USIU), National Youth Service (NYS), General Service Unit (GSU), Kamai and Roysambu. I want to thank them especially for electing His Excellency the President and all the Jubilee Members of County Assembly (MCAs) in the five wards. As I debate the exposition of public policy in the President’s Speech, I want to dwell on the matter of devolution. In Nairobi, we have a Jubilee majority. Among MCAs, we have 45 out of 85, and it is our hope and trust that Nairobi will not be a city in the garbage, as it had been turned into by the National Super Alliance (NASA) coalition, who have been on the throne for the last five years. I also congratulate the residents of Nairobi for voting overwhelmingly for Governor Mike Sonko. I appeal to him to work closely with the Jubilee MPs and the Opposition MPs. If the 17 MPs work together with all the 85 elected MCAs, we can deliver services. Our Constitution, in Chapter 11, Section 189, provides for cooperation of the two levels of Government – the county government and the national Government. We, as MPs representing the national Government, are appealing to our governors; that we create links and bridges and we cooperate to bring development to the City of Nairobi. I say so because about 85 per cent of the services the residents of Nairobi require should be provided through the devolved functions of the Nairobi City County. I am talking about functions like water, sewage, garbage, roads and health. As MPs, we chip in when it comes to security and education. It is, therefore, important for the residents of Nairobi to feel the impact of the services that MPs, the national Government and the County Government are providing. On politics and the ruling of the Supreme Court, it is true that all of us Jubilee supporters felt hurt but like our President, we gracefully accepted the ruling. We are ready for another round of presidential elections. We plead with the other side to carry themselves with decorum this time round, when we defeat them again."
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