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"content": "misguided preposition that exists in our Constitution and the law, that you list up people and then they lock in and know that they are going to be nominated if the party wins and then go to do their own things. They know that they are already secure. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in any jurisdiction, nominations are used to address the imbalances in terms of disadvantaged groups. It is also used to reward party stalwarts for doing a good job and to give the party visibility, strength and good performance in elections. I would want to see CMD championing this so that we as leaderships in parties are freed from locking in people who as soon as they are locked in as nominated list members, they move away from the party. They support other parties knowing that they will come to the House, anyway. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I remember in the last Parliament, there was some Senator who was nominated by a party led by my brother Hon. Musalia Mudavadi. She rebelled from day one. As soon as she walked in to this House, she crossed the Floor and worked with the other side for five years and left. There was very little they could do. Democracy has also come of age in this country. I am looking at my brother from West Pokot County who has been a victim of decisions of democracy. One day he walked to Parliament as a Member and in the afternoon he was not. The party that had sponsored him then, Kenya African National Union (KANU), “baba na mama” had expelled him with my late friend Hon. Lotodo. It happened with one meeting in a morning. We heard at 1.00 p.m. bulletin:"
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