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    "id": 1215119,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Mohamed",
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    "content": "is not capture of Parliament, then what is capture of Parliament? I occupy the Office of the Whip of the Minority Party and my leader here, who is the Leader of the Minority Party, cannot do any effective changes like what is happening now in the Senate. Why are we in office? Why is Parliament facilitating us? Why do we not close those offices and give keys to the Leader of the Majority Party and the Clerk? They can run Parliament the way they want. This is especially on the Leader of the Majority Party who is the Chair of that Committee. Hon. Temporary Speaker, what happened yesterday will remain in the history record of the National Assembly and will be remembered as the worst day a Committee of Parliament made such a decision. What do we do with those Committees now? There are Members coming to our offices everyday who are in one Committee while there are Members who are in three Committees. We wanted to rationalise the membership. However, the Majority side now wants to run the Minority side as well. How are we going to allow that to happen? That is a declaration of war in this House. If that matter is not arrested by the leadership of this House, the consequences will be dire. Therefore, I want to urge the Leader of the Majority Party – now that he is the Chairman of the Committee on Selection – to show leadership so that this House can run in the manner envisaged in the Standing Orders and the Constitution, which provide for the Majority and Minority sides. People joined these coalitions by choice. Nobody was forced to join any coalition. If you want to get your Committee from the Majority side, go and join that side and get your Committee. Committee slots were shared between the coalition in accordance with the proportional representation of Members in the House. Members went out on 9th August, campaigned and were elected from the constituencies to come and represent their people. Hon. Temporary Speaker, as the Minority side, I want to register here that our rights guaranteed in the Standing Orders were trampled on yesterday. How we run the Minority side cannot be dictated by the Majority side. That is a fact. Also, we cannot dictate how the Majority side is to be ran. Our proposal to rationalise our side of the Committee memberships was rejected yesterday through a vote. We have serious crisis outside Parliament. If Members wish that we also bring that crisis inside here, well and good. We know how to do it best. We have been doing it from 2013 to 2017 and all the time we know how to do it. We have brought"
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