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    "id": 1203813,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Tom Ojienda, SC",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not know if I can be heard from here. I prefer to address the House from here. Two issues are important here. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise, of course, noting that we have very wonderful people in the Senate Business Committee, like my good friend, Sen. Wandeti here. However, on a point of order and Sen. Dullo has pointed to the need to ensure that we sanitize every process in this House and it is compliant. There is communication that has been shared from the Registrar of Political Parties. It has been shared to all of us that Sen. Ali Roba, my former client, is indeed and is still a Member of Azimio Coalition Party. The problem that will arise if the House rules or approves the Senate Business Committee as proposed is that you would have by that decision, stamped your authority and declared Azimio Coalition as the Majority Party. I say this because I have looked at Sections 2, 6, 7 and 11 of the Political Parties Act. Those sections are to the effect that a coalition party or a coalition of parties, however designated, can find place in the House in the manner existing prior to the election. The Azimio Coalition was a Coalition that presented candidates to the election through various parties that were voted in, and that is why the Number 32 and 34 is instructive. I know why my learned friend, Sen. Murkomen, my former colleague whom I got his first job at Moi University, is saying that we decide on this matter today. It is because he knows that he will be sworn in next week with Sen. Soipan, and we will be the majority by next week."
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