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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chepkong’a",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Kiprono Chepkonga",
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    "content": "When they come back, how sure are they that we will not prevent them from participating? We have a super majority in the Committee, we are 18. So, what environment has changed that they believe now they should come back? The Chair has not changed. I was democratically elected by a majority of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs Members. This business of de-whipping Members and bringing them back because you want to curtail some debates from Members--- These are very sharp Members. We have minutes to prove that all the Members of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs including Hon. Kaluma who is seated here and Hon. Aluoch who is my senior--- Most of us are lawyers and we are not in this business of preventing debate in the Committee. That will be the most foolish thing to do. It will be the most ludicrous thing that you can do as a Chair, particularly when you are an outstanding advocate. It is not a fluke that I have been an advocate for the last 26 years. It has taken a lot of thinking for me to reach where I am."
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