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    "speaker_name": "Hon. William Kassait Kamket",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Tiaty",
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    "content": "Coming to what the President said on the occasion of the Presidential Address in this Assembly, he came and did his constitutional duty after the Supreme Court reinstated him not as an aspiring President, but as a sitting President. Hon. Speaker, the only thing that I thank the people of Kenya for is the peace that they have maintained since the ruling of the Supreme Court. I commend the people of the Republic of Kenya for maintaining peace throughout this period. I am sure that there are some who were wishing for the opposite. I thank the people of Kenya for maintaining peace at this very defining moment in our history. In the last election, on the 8th August, the people of Tiaty Constituency were a bit generous with their vote for very good reasons. They voted 50-50. They voted 50 per cent for the Opposition and 50 per cent for His Excellency, Uhuru Kenyatta. However, we have a saying in the Pokot language that when you chase a man, you do not cross the river when he has crossed. In that spirit, therefore, as we move to 17th October, I shall be asking my people to turn up in large numbers and vote for His Excellency President Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta. We are targeting a 100 per cent vote. I will personally lead that campaign. We have our own issues and we shall have them addressed as we move along. The first one is the rampant extra-judicial killings happening in Tiaty and Laikipia and the killing of livestock by security officers, which is an abomination. I am sure those matters will be addressed as we move along. Hon. Speaker, the Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga is a gentleman who is drowning. He is like a captain of a drowning ship, and all he is doing is trying to destroy institutions and counting how many people he is going to drown with. Tribal profiling of individuals who work in those very key pillars of our democracy will not help him. I offer a free advice to that gentleman this afternoon; please, even if your wife or 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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