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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Moses Nguchine Kirima",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Central Imenti",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Nguchine Kirima",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, may I take this opportunity to thank God for enabling me to be the Member of Imenti Central Constituency. I had tried more than once to vie. It has taken the hand of God and the support of my people to win in this particular election of 2017. May I take this opportunity to congratulate you for being elected the Speaker of this august House. I also congratulate the rest of the House leadership for being elected. In the same vein, I wish to take this opportunity to generally thank the people of Meru. They really supported me throughout my campaign period. They supported me through prayers and financial contributions. Hon. Speaker, we still have remnants of Mau Mau. They are still alive. As a child of a Mau Mau, the Mau Mau really supported me and I appreciate. They did their best. They have been praying and saying they have never seen a child of a Mau Mau general or participants who came from the forest making it to this Parliament. I really appreciate and thank God for that. As pertains to the Presidential Speech which was delivered here by His Excellency the President, I take this opportunity to say that the President did his best in the circumstances, taking into account that there is an election looming over his head. Everybody could see that the President was firm. He does not have any pressure. He is not agitated. Only to say that what was done by the Supreme Court requires a closer analysis by people who have a legal mind. If one could have a legal mind, one could tell from the word go that things were not good initially, from the time when the documents were admitted out of time. That was against the Constitution which stipulates the time when proceedings challenging the election of a president are supposed to be filed and admitted. Since that has gone, it is my pleasure to note that I am in a party which is not shaken by what is ahead - the Jubilee Party - because we are sure that our people who turned up in large numbers - over eight million - this time round they are going to be more than 10 million. I am assured of that especially from my place. The peace which the President talked about, I assure you, even though my friend from Samburu has talked about four people being killed because that is the clashes between the Meru and the Samburu due to cattle rustling between the Igembe and the Samburu—this is just an isolated incident—we have peace in our country. Mine is to pray that the President do affirm the sovereignty which has been shown to him by the members of this country. He should hold it firm and he should not be shaken by anything. He should not feel threatened by anything because when it comes to voting, we are going to vote him in large numbers. With those few remarks, I say that what my people have been missing in Central Imenti Constituency, whom I thank so much for electing me this time, they are going to get it. They have been complaining that the Members whom they have been electing have not been participating in debates in this House. I am up to that task. I thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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