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"speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I wanted to take a slightly different trajectory and ask my colleagues to relax. I previously spoke when there was another released result like this and asked people to relax. When I tried to find out what Infotrak did, I was told that they ask a standard question. I will be the devil’s advocate and assume it was a scientific research. The general question was: How do you rate your Member? I hear Members talking about the NG-CDF. That was not part of what was asked. What Infotrak said is that they asked people at random to rate their MPs. Maybe you have not attended many funerals in your constituency and that is why they ranked you the way they did. I just want to say two things. I have been here for a while. I will give live examples. In the 10th Parliament, the then MP for Kasipul Kabondo, Oyugi Magwanga, was always ranked by the National Taxpayers Association (NTA) as the best performing Member from our region. I was very low on the list. At the end of the day when we went for elections, Oyugi Magwanga… Hon. Speaker, allow me just one or two minutes. Oyugi Magwanga had difficulty coming back to this House. It was a walk-over for me even with that low ranking. In the last Parliament, I do not know what happened. They kept ranking me highly. That was the time I fought for my life to come back to this Parliament. I am not bothered with results and surveys. Let me tell you. I plead…"
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