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    "id": 1207869,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung'wah",
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    "content": "When your party leader directs you, even as he did in the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs to lead you to walk out of a committee of Parliament, then you belittle the people who elected you and you are telling them that you cannot make decisions as leaders by yourselves; that you have to wait for your party leader to direct you on which meeting to attend, when to walk out, when to stand, and when to sit. Please, act as leaders who can take charge of business before the House. You had the opportunity to appear in the House Business Committee as a Leader of the Minority Party. You had the business of even mobilising other leaders in the minority to attend the House Business Committee and have your say in it. You cannot now come and stand before the national television because you know you are on air, to pretend that this business did not come. You are not only misleading Members who are seated here, but the entire country. You should be bold enough, Hon. Opiyo, to tell the country that you do not have the audacity and the guts to stand on your two feet as the Leader of the Minority Party. Lead the minority. Stop allowing the former Prime Minister to lead the minority from outside the House. Even the President is not leading this House and the majority from outside the House, my brother. It is not in your standing, Leader of the Minority Party, to tell me when to stand or when to sit. I sit when I am directed by the Speaker, not you."
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