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    "id": 1070195,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1070195/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 174,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
        "slug": "amos-kimunya"
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    "content": "So, we know you were seated here with us. I was seated here. Hon. John Mbadi was seated here. The Majority Whip was seated here. The Deputy Whip was here. Hon. Junet Nuh was here. So, by implicating you, you know for the common man out there knows the leader of the House is the Speaker. So, these people have not only brought the leadership of the House to disrepute; but have actually made some very serious insinuations that bring dishonour to the Office of the Speaker of this House. If the chap was very clear that they were receiving from the Whip, then we would be dealing with the Whip. By actually saying, “a senior parliamentary leader”, there is only one senior in this House and that is you, Hon. Speaker. These people require to be disciplined so that we have some decorum in this House. This looseness and trying to get cheap political mileage out there against the leadership of this House and Hon. Members ought to be stopped. I also heard the Member for Ndia, Hon. George Kariuki, addressing his constituents and trying to justify why he voted no because he could not join the people who were being bribed. Again, it is the kind of thing that we are being told that Kenyans are looking at us and saying the only reason we voted “Yes”, was because we were bribed. Yet, Members were committed and they stayed here untill midnight and nobody was ever approached; nobody was induced. Indeed, allegations are that the inducements were more to say “No” than to say “Yes”. That is unfounded; we do not know. In terms of the people actually putting it on record and sending it to the whole world—these tweets are global, and they are accessible—it is not just bringing disrepute within Kenya, but internationally; that the Parliament of Kenya is a parliament where, for MPs to vote in a certain direction, they go for inducements in the office of a senior leader of the House. That is how serious it can get. We need to take serious action commensurate with the offense. I support that Hon. Moses Kuria should be named and all those who have ridden on his coattails should follow in the same coattails as they exit the House."
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