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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) S.W. Chege",
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        "legal_name": "Sabina Wanjiru Chege",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker and thank you for recognising gender in this House. At the outset, as women of this nation, we are very disappointed by the words of the young Member of Parliament for Embakasi East who decided to abuse His Excellency the President and in connection with that abused his mother. We are very disappointed and we should start disciplining ourselves. For the Hon. Member, though the law has taken its course, when he comes to this House, we as women especially on the Jubilee side will deal with him. Secondly, yesterday, the business community of this town came out and made their voice heard that they need their businesses to run. Today, it is unfortunate that the other side is saying that there is Mungiki in this town. We will not accept our young business people to be called names. Being a business person does not mean that one is a Mungiki . I condemn the way we have started grouping our people in this country. NASA will not have their cake and eat it. They went to court to complain about the presidential elections. The courts gave them what they asked for, a repeat of the presidential elections. We are waiting for 26th October 2017 when Kenyans will once again exercise their power and confirm they had elected Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta as the President. It is unfortunate to hear the same people who went to court now saying that they are not ready to go to the polls because they want their conditions met. It is important for the NASA team to realise that when they went to court they did not give it conditions on how they wanted the judgment to be written unless they were the ones who were to write that judgment. So, it will be good for them to respect the law and follow the instructions and directions from the courts. It is also unfortunate, and I want to make this as a personal statement that I did not, as the Woman Representative for Muranga County, say that I will undress and go to Embakasi. The Departmental Committee on Energy, Communication and Information should start looking at the use of social media and action should be taken against the originators of such messages. It was also very unfortunate for me to see women undress in this town in the name of demonstrations. It is also unfortunate that when they were celebrating we saw some young men in their underwear and some ladies in their bras. It is quite a shame. We need to know that we are mentors to our children on the values of this nation and it is unfortunate to see such kind of behaviour. We have lost a lot of money in terms of businesses and investments. All we are waiting for is to go for the election so that we can move on. We have lost around Kshs14 billion as a result of the re-election. If both sides are genuine, let us honour Kenyans and let us go back to the election and elect the President of this nation. We have no vacuum. When the Judges declared that the elections were null and void, it was confirmed that Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta is still the President. For the doubting Thomases, he has all the powers as the President until after the election. For the ones threatening, I am sure they are not interested in the re-election. It is high time we told them that this House is ready. We are also ready to change some of the laws that made people go to court to question the validity of the electoral processes when 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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