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    "id": 1230167,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I also want to draw your attention to a precedent that has been set in this House. In your Communication, you alluded to the myriads of letters that have been written by the purported Secretary-General of the Jubilee Party because there is a dispute. I heard the Deputy Leader of the Minority Party ask what the relevance of those letters was. The relevance of those letters by Hon. Jeremiah Kioni, the Secretary-General of the Jubilee Party, is very simple. I was just perusing through those letters and I have seen that he wrote about the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) nominating Hon. Nyokabi to represent the Jubilee Party. The Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya Alliance also had other nominative slots. With regards to the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA), Hon. Jeremiah Kioni wrote nominating himself and the former Member for Kigumo. The Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya Alliance also had their own nominees. If I may answer Hon. Robert Mbui, the relevance of those letters is that, even the Jubilee Party, led by their Secretary-General, Hon. Jeremiah Kioni, who is very active in the Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya Alliance, does not recognise the Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya Alliance as a coalition. That is why he has been very consistent in nominating Members of this House elected under the Jubilee Party ticket, to represent people who voted for the Jubilee Party in the Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya Alliance, in leadership and nominative positions that are brought to this House. Also on precedents, Hon. Kaguchia has alluded to the case of Commissioner Momanyi. That is why I was warning and cautioning my brother, Robert Mbui. You might be next. Do not support injustice against your sister. Tomorrow, it shall be you. In the last Parliament, it was the Wiper Democratic Movement (WDM). The entire House stood with WDM. I invite the entire House today to stand with the Jubilee Party within the Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya Alliance. Hon. Momanyi was eventually nominated as a Commissioner of the Parliamentary Service Commission, recognising that WDM was a parliamentary political party. Today, even with all the injustice and unfairness that my former party Jubilee visited upon me and my colleagues in the United Democratic Alliance (UDA), I have a duty as a democrat to defend the rights of Members elected on a Jubilee Party ticket. Buttressing that duty, I will even defend the ODM and WDM. I will even defend the Pamoja African Alliance (PAA) and the United Party of Independent Alliance (UPIA), as small as they are within the coalition. That is how we enrich our democracy. This House has also set a precedent. The House has a practice of not extinguishing the rights of individual political parties. That is what this House did with Hon. Momanyi and also with Hon. David Ochieng’ when ODM sought to remove him from a Committee when he was elected on his own Movement for Democracy and Growth (MDG) party. This House and the Speaker in the 12th Parliament stood with the individual rights of the MDG party that was represented by only one Member, Hon. David Ochieng’. The House stood to protect the fundamental rights of individual Members in the name of David Ochieng’ and Commissioner Momanyi. Hon. Speaker, I invite you to keep those factors in mind as you consider this matter. I know…"
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