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    "speaker_name": "Hon. William Maina Kamanda",
    "speaker_title": "The Nominated Member",
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        "legal_name": "Maina Kamanda",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I was wondering whether it is because I do not have constituency that you are not seeing me. I used to catch your eye very easily. I want to remind everybody that I have the largest constituency having been nominated by His Excellency the President. I want to congratulate each one of us, those elected and those nominated. I also want to congratulate you, Mr. Speaker and the Deputy Speaker for having been elected to steer the 12th Parliament. Those of us, who were in the 11th Parliament, know how you worked extremely hard under very difficult circumstances, but you made it. I have been here three times courtesy of the people of Starehe. I thank them. The people of Starehe have been very generous to me. For 20 years, they have made me their councillor and for 15 years, their Member of Parliament. So, losing one election cannot make me condemn them. I only need to thank them more sincerely. To the young man who has taken over from me, I would like to assure him of my support. He should not see me as a competitor anymore. Let him see me as a guide. The people he will compete with in 2022 will be other younger people like him and not Maina Kamanda. It is true Nairobi has young people but, please, do not boast too much about it because we were also young people at one time. At some point, I was the youngest councillor at the age of 25 years. At the time, there were elderly men who were, say, 70 years old. So, it is something that you should carry with respect. Also respect the elderly people. It is that respect for the elderly that has made me who I am and brought me where I am today. All you need to do is to walk by their side and, at some point, they will be phased out and you will take over. I want to talk about the President’s Speech. I want to thank President Kenyatta for the way he has steered this country in the last four years. The Opposition has been making noise that the Government has done nothing and that it cannot be trusted or elected. However, Kenyans voted for the Jubilee Government. That means that the agenda and the manifesto of Jubilee Government, the President and you, Hon. Speaker, have been put through this Parliament. For those who do not understand Raila, I have been with him all this time in Nairobi. People died in 1982. I was then a councillor here in Nairobi and over 400 people died during the 1982 coup. This man is cursed by the blood of those who died. He should know that he will never make it through the ballot. He knows it. That is why he wants shortcuts. I also want to talk about the Senate. Sen. Wetangula is telling his people not to attend sittings of both Houses, but he is busy contributing in the Senate. We are telling his people to be ashamed. They are being misled. They should wake up and come and work for their people. 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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