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    "id": 1203266,
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    "speaker_name": "South Mugirango, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Sylvanus Osoro",
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    "content": "is equipped with the Constitution of Kenya, in Article 38 and Article 36 on the Rights of Association. Even a first-year student knows that a contractual agreement entered through coercion and threats is a nullity and cannot be validated even from your seat, Hon. Speaker. Any agreement that is entered into at night through blackmail and coercion is a nullity. Today, I challenge the Hon. Junet, who is salivating at my Whip of the Majority Party seat, to table before the House, a resolution by the Azimio la Umoja One Coalition Party today with a list of Members who have appended their signatures in attendance of that meeting, and minutes of the same meeting. Not mere statements of ‘we have the numbers, we are the majority’ and, at some point, ‘we were together and had a coalition agreement.’ Hon. Speaker, as legal practitioners, we both know that any law, legislation or agreement that contravenes the supreme law of the land, the Constitution, is null and void. Our Constitution is supreme. Article 36 provides for the Rights of Association. You cannot force MDG or Maendeleo Chap Chap to go to bed with you against their will. They do not want. They are protected by Article 36. You cannot use a mere paper that you coerced them to sign. Those Members are protected by Article 36 and Article 38 of the Constitution. The invitation that you are being called upon to determine is on a mere agreement, whose contents were not shared to the people who signed it, is wrong. Please decline that invitation. The Majority coalition is Kenya Kwanza. The right of association cannot be downplayed by a mere agreement. Hon. Speaker, as you retire to make your determination, you need to relook at the provision of Article 108 on the definition of a political party. By all standards, at whichever angle you chose to approach this matter, the definition of Azimio currently, is Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition Party. It stands on the same level as ODM, UDA, Maendeleo Chap Chap and all the other parties. If you call for a count on the Members of Azimio Coalition Party in this House, you will get none. There is only one member of Azimio Coalition Party as provided for by the definition in Article 108 (2), and that is the Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga. The rest are members of parties, including myself. I am a Member of UDA. The Hon. Junet is a Member of ODM. They enjoy a sizeable number in this House. They are about 88. I want to echo the sentiments of my colleague, Hon. Ichung’wah. He said they have been fair to share their very small meagre cake with their short brothers, the ones who do not deserve anything such as the Wiper Democratic Movement-Kenya (WDM- K) and other parties. We challenge them today."
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