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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Zachary Kwenya Thuku",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Kinangop",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to take this very first opportunity to thank God for having given me a chance to represent the good people of Kinangop Constituency. Hon. Speaker, I also want to congratulate you on your election as the Speaker of this House for the second time. I was looking forward to a time like this when I would be in this House under your leadership. I have known you as a seasoned leader and a scholar in law. I am, therefore, privileged to be in this House. I also want to congratulate the Members of Parliament who were elected having gone through a very rigorous campaign period and coming out successfully. We are privileged to be in this House, which is robust because we have fresh minds. We will bring on board new ideas and ways of doing things. I want to support the Adjournment Motion which is before the House bearing in mind what is ahead of us in the next one week. I want to go back to the speech which was presented to this House by His Excellency the President, Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta. I was moved immensely by the kind of statesmanship that he showed to this country. Being under such kind of pressure, he was able to stand strong and tell the country to remain cohesive and together as a country. There is no way we are going to have development and economic growth until such a time when we hold together and speak as a people. Nothing should divide us whether tribal or whatever happens in this country. We have to remain one. I wish to thank the President for being a father. I think it is a contrast between the so called Baba and our father, the President. The President should go on record as the father of democracy because, really, he upholds what democracy is. The opposite that we call Baba is the father of chaos and confusion and a time has come that on 17th of October, the people of Kenya will rise up and really send that guy home because time is up for him. That way, our President can rule for the next five years with a bit of sanity in this country. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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