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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker. You will indulge me just one minute. Yesterday, I think we started not on a very good note. So, I did not take time to welcome back my colleagues after a long recess and New Year 2018, which we have never had. We have never debated in 2018. Yesterday was the first day. Unfortunately, we started at a point where we were complaining and trying to flex muscles with our colleagues. All in all, I want to say that I am happy that we are all back. There are a few of our colleagues who are unwell. I know there are a few of our colleagues who are out of the country for treatment. We wish them good luck; that they get medication and come back soon, even without mentioning names. I really do not want to talk about today because I do not subscribe to either the Valentine’s Day or the Ash Wednesday. I am a Christian but my faith is, probably, slightly different on the Ash Wednesday. I respect our brothers and sisters who profess that faith. On the issue before us, I just want to second this Procedural Motion. The Constitution requires that the President will be addressing the nation as and when necessary or when the President requests. I do not want to go into the details of discussing about the Presidency and the Executive. You know we have issues in this country which I hope will be resolved soon. This is about the fundamentals of the law – that, a country will have a president and the president will address the country and when the country is addressed then we need, as a House, to take our time and discuss that. So, this is limiting the debate on the Address by the President. Hon. Deputy Speaker, just allow me to say one word before I sit down. This is a Procedural Motion. We do not need to take much time debating it. I plead to the membership of this 12th Parliament. I am not indicting this 12th Parliament. I think it is something that we observed even from the 11th Parliament – that you really do not have to contribute to every order that is before the House or every item, whether a Motion or a Bill, that is before the House if you are not prepared for it. I would rather see a few of us take a bit of time to contribute either to Bills or Motions and the rest of us may just support. However, the debate should be qualitative so that the people of Kenya understand what is contained in the Bills or Motions before the House. There is a tendency by some of us to just want to speak so many times. There is this organisation that has been running reports on how MPs contribute without even looking at the quality of that debate and saying Mbadi has contributed 1,000 times while 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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