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    "id": 1113104,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1113104/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyakach, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aduma Owuor",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2592,
        "legal_name": "Joshua Aduma Owuor",
        "slug": "joshua-aduma-owuor"
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    "content": "Committee and a Member of this House who has also been a victim of insecurity while serving in this House as the record would reveal. This House and you as the leader of Parliament have some inherent authority to ensure that we do not breach the Constitution. The sentiments being raised and the decision that will be made today will be on record because this is a House of record. If it goes on record, which is for posterity, some of the Members who are of a different view will one day come and say: We were just herdsmen and not experts in law like you. As an expert in legal matters and a senior counsel long before we joined the profession, I want to state that you have authority under Standing Order No. 53 (3) in which the Leader of Minority raised this issue to defer it. You also have authority under Standing Order No. 1 to defer the matter for you to reflect on it soberly. It will go on record and it should not touch on your integrity in future. Hon. Speaker, as a Member of the Committee, I recall that when we were arbitrating on these issues, Hon. Arbelle, who is a Member of the Committee, was not allowed to be part of the report writing to avoid conflict of interest. Therefore, it is now within your inherent powers to look at Standing Order No. 225 on whether the petitioner can still proceed to make amendments on the Report that was presented in this House. I support the views of the Leader of Majority Party, who is also a senior counsel, and the Leader of the Minority Party, that we should not go on record for wrong purposes. Hon. Speaker, of interest, when this matter came for debate, it was imputed that Members of the Committee could have been compromised. I have looked for a copy of the Hansard but it is not yet out. These are weighty issues which ought to be considered. We need to look at the"
}