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    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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    "content": "committee. Hon. Speaker, that is why you are different from other Speakers and Members must know. I stayed in this House for about three months as a backbencher, sacked from the Government and with no committee. So, I went to Speaker Marende and he did not listen to me. This is one of the reasons why I did not vote for him in the 11th Parliament because he was not kind. I told him I was the Member for Dujis. I met Hon. Jakoyo, a good man, and he was the Whip working together with Johnson Muthama from the PNU. I sat with him in the bar and told him: “My friend, even if I have been sacked and am not in good books with ODM, I am entitled to be in a committee.” Hon. Jakoyo went out of his way and ensured that I joined the Committee of Energy at that time. Finally, I want to indulge you under your leadership that the Parliamentary Service Commission must recognise outstanding leaders since independence and not only Jakoyo. This is by doing what happens in the House of Commons in the Australian Parliament by naming certain facilities and rooms after those leaders. Instead of having Room 7 and 9, we can have Jakoyo Midiwo Room, Speaker Marende’s Room, Hon. Shikuku or Hon. Ahmed Khalif, so that these great leaders are remembered. You find this in other jurisdictions. Even the floors in the new building, cafeteria and library should be named after somebody like Former Deputy Speaker, Jean- Marie Seroney Library, so that these leaders are recognised. I think we can start with Jakoyo and the PSC can do this. Hon. Elisha is a beneficiary of the fearless and courageous nature of Hon. Jakoyo in the last election. Jakoyo was in a team and I am not sure Hon. Atandi was in it. With a lot of respect, I do not think he fits in Jakoyo’s team. He said he was with him, but the problem is we cannot verify. But Hon. Ochieng was with Jakoyo and at one time during the elections as I conclude, I sat with Jakoyo because we were very good friends particularly in the 11th Parliament. He would say no and we agree with him by the time we were entering the Chamber. I would tell him because he was the Opposition and Minority Leader with Hon. Nyenze, to take his position and I would take mine and we would see the numbers. At times, we would agree: This is of national interest, let us do a bipartisan. So, by the time I would be coming to the Chamber, I would know the position of Jakoyo and he would know mine. During the last general election, I sat with him and told him: “My friend, I have been with you in ODM since 2007 and in LDP, you cannot fight Baba”, because I saw he was pushing and wanted Hon. Gumbo, another man I have a lot of respect for. He is one of the very few independent minded leaders from the lake together with people like Shakeel Shabbir. I told him to stop pushing a lot and investing in the candidature of Hon. Gumbo. It would cost him his seat. That is what happened and in his place Hon. Elisha joined this House. I think we will ask Hon. Elisha and John Mbadi to start collecting money. I think we need to stand with the family of our colleague because he was one of the few leaders under the new Constitution in our own parliamentary jurisdiction. He was the Deputy Minority Leader, the first of its kind in this House. So, I think we will sit as leaders and friends and ensure we support the family left behind. We say in our religion in Chapter 3:185 of the Holy Quran that every soul will taste death. So, death is eminent and will come. The only question is when. When he meets his creator, all that he will be asked is what he has done for the Almighty God when he was in this world. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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