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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chepkong’a",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Kiprono Chepkonga",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, you just do not arrive. There is no arrival by chance. It was a planned journey that we arrived in this House. So, for people to think that we conduct meetings in a very malicious manner, I urge you to invoke Standing Order NoS. 83 and 58 which are very clear. When a Member makes an allegation against another Member, that investigation must be undertaken. Secondly, if he does not apologise, Standing Order No. 107 (i) deems that conduct itself to be disorderly and deliberate. I would like to believe that when Hon. Mwadeghu was elected as Member of Parliament (MP), he was sworn. When he swore in the first two lines of any affidavit he must have said: “I am a male of sound mind”. So, we are dealing with people of sound mind. We have no mad people here. If I thought for one moment that there is someone who is mad here, I would have given him the benefit of the doubt but since he is my good friend, I want to believe that this was a deliberate intention to impune into our characters with an intention which is calculated to embarrass us and to bring us down in terms of good thinking Kenyans. Hon. Speaker, many Kenyans have been thinking rightly about me for having given out the most expensive licence in 1999 which some Members should know here. We brought in US$55million and at that time it was Kshs4billion. I do not think anyone has ever issued a licence in this House of that amount. That is why we are of sound minds. We have even international reputation. As you know, I am a global leader for tomorrow in World Economic Forum (WEF). So, even people outside this country are wondering: “We thought Hon. Chepkong’a was a democratic person when we nominated him as a global leader for tomorrow in the WEF and he has now become a dictator.” It is fair that we investigate this matter so that I can be acquitted of this serious allegation."
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