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    "id": 1203486,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Alego Usonga, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samuel Atandi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me the opportunity. Like all my colleagues have done, I congratulate you for being elected the Speaker of the 13th Parliament. I also thank my voters, the great people of Alego Usonga, for re-electing me to this House. Since the introduction of multiparty democracy in Kenya 30 years ago, I am the first to be re-elected to Parliament. So, I thank my voters for that. Hon. Speaker, coming back to this matter, I see that you are being persuaded to rule in favour of the Kenya Kwanza Alliance, in as far as the majority leadership of this House is concerned. I urge you to confine yourself to the Standing Orders of this House. Standing Order 2B shows that the authority from where you are supposed to receive the guidelines on the majority leadership of Members of this House is the Registrar of Political Parties. I urge you to restrict yourself to that Standing Order when you sit back to make your decision on this matter because we cannot purport to guide you on which side is the majority when the law is very clear. The Standing Order is also very clear. Secondly, I have seen that most Members are complaining that they were coerced into joining the Azimio la Umoja – One Kenya Coalition. I want to be specific to my brother, David Ochieng, who is here and is my neighbour. David Ochieng joined the Azimio la Umoja – One Kenya Coalition by force. Actually, we did not even want him to join. He joined by force because he knew that without the Azimio la Umoja – One Kenya Coalition, he would never be elected. He would never be here. He was using baba’s name to be elected. It is the same with these UDM Members. Hon. Speaker, if you rule in any other way, you will be helping in mutilating democracy…"
}