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    "id": 1001619,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1001619/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Kimani Ichung’wah",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1835,
        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": " Not tyranny of numbers but tyranny of dictatorship by political parties. We must always appreciate that we are here as peoples’ representatives. As much as we came into this House through political parties, we must appreciate that people went to the ballot to vote for individuals who were sponsored by political parties. In your ruling, I am glad that you appreciate that, as much as a political party has nominated an appointee to serve in a Commission, that Commissioner then comes to serve the House. The commissioner was not appointed in a Parliamentary Group meeting of that party, but the names were brought to the House and we made a decision. If a political party wants to remove a Member, we must follow the procedures, Constitution and our own statutes. If you want to whimsically remove a commissioner, give him/her an opportunity to be named in a substantive Motion. I hear Hon. Junet is serving a judicial notice, but it must be on substantive grounds and not definitions of misconduct. Looking at Junet, he might be misconstrued to be misconduct. I want to re-emphasize that we, including commissioners, are a constitutional democracy where we represent people. The Vice-Chairperson of the PSC, who is seated here, was nominated by our Jubilee Party. But she represents me as a constituent who voted for her. The Jubilee Party cannot whimsically remove her on flimsy grounds of misconduct without giving me an opportunity to have my say. Since the Minority Whip is agitated by his whimsical insinuations of misconduct, let me leave it at that."
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