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    "id": 1139078,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 376,
        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
        "slug": "millie-odhiambo-mabona"
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, UDA keeps on threatening us about taking this law to court. I hope the courts are listening. As a lawyer, I want to advise the courts to not be seen to be aligned to one side of the political divide. The UDA cannot purport to say that when they have been defeated by numbers here on issues which are not constitutional, they are going to court. Why? My sisters, Hon. Alice Wahome and Hon. Cecily Mbarire, kept telling us this. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there are two things that shocked me. When I was seated here, I thanked the Almighty God that in my lifetime, I saw Hon. Alice Wahome singing badomapambano . In my lifetime, I heard them say tibim. In my lifetime, I heard them asking us to be mindful that we are a House that needs to make laws for posterity. We have been preaching this since I joined this Parliament. So, I am glad that they are finally converted. However, they should not be converted for two minutes but for life. Please, ensure that you make laws for posterity. I am glad that even as you say that this will come for mediation or whatever, please, we must learn to sober up as a House. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, finally, I want to challenge the House leadership. We have disagreed in this House before but what the House leadership is doing – perhaps no other Member will raise this matter with you – is reducing this House to a joke. How do we allow people to come here dressed in party colours? How do we allow Members to come to this House with"
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