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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Duncan Okatch",
    "speaker_title": "The Counsel for Nairobi City County Assembly",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you for the opportunity. There is only one germane issue that you ought to consider. Your Rules are very clear, that you have to provide the addresses and names of the persons who are to be called as witnesses in advance. It is not only for our sake, but for the sake of this House and for planning purposes. It is for the Members of this honorable House to know in advance the nature of evidence that you will be calling in your defense. We complied with that and notified them in advance. Mr. Speaker, Sir, today, we have affidavits which have not been indicated as witness affidavits. They are just affidavits. Some of them, as we have been told, were filed in an ongoing case in court. This is such that even ourselves, looking at them, they were just mere attachments that maybe the Governor who has filed an affidavit would have referred to. It will be utterly unfair, not only to us, but even to this House, for these particular affidavits to be introduced and for these particular people to be taken as witnesses against your rules of procedure. Let everyone be bound by that. If this is what they chose, let them lie on the bed that they actually created."
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