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    "speaker_name": "The Woman Representative for Murang’a County",
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    "content": "(Hon. (Ms.) Sabina Wanjiru Maitu Chege): Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to speak. First, I thank the people of Murang’a. We were among the top in the voter turnout on 8th August in voting for our President, Hon. Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta. I was glad to see him coming to address the nation through this House. I also thank the people of Murang’a for having confidence in women. In his Speech, the President commended Kenyans for voting women into this House. We have three women who have been voted in as Members of a single constituency and myself as the Member for my county. We are four women out of the eight Members of Parliament from Murang’a County. With the women, we will not let them down. I am also glad to see very young people, including my friend, KJ, with whom we have come from the same industry. Initially, in this House we are used to having doctors, engineers and the likes but we have a new team from the emerging industry. We are several of us, artistes, here. Personally, I have featured in the Swahili soap Tausi as an actress. I am very proud that I have been an artiste, a broadcaster, and now a Member of this House. We want to promise Kenyans as young people, because we are the majority in this nation; that we are going to work towards achieving the promises that we made, of creating job opportunities for them. We also want to be part of the mentors. I am foreseeing a situation where, in the next 10 or 20 years, if you are 50 years old, politics will not be your game again because young people will have taken over. The President spoke about having no vacuum in this nation. We also have no vacuum in this House. I was ashamed this morning to see Members from the Opposition side sneak into the House to sign the attendance register and leave. I would like to remind them that they call us thieves but we now know who the major thieves are. This is taking money from the taxpayers. You sneak in because you would not want to be seen by your leader that you came to this House 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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