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    "id": 1248777,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, you will recall that on Thursday, 4th May 2023, I issued a Communication on the Replacement of the Deputy Minority Whip. In that Communication, I guided the House that the communication received from the Minority Party with regard to the replacement of Hon. Sabina Chege as the Deputy Minority Whip was incomplete when viewed against the requirements of Standing Order 20A. Consequently, I granted the Minority Party a period of 30 days within which to convey the appropriate communication on the replacement of its Deputy Minority Whip, if it so wished. I now wish to update the House on further developments that have taken place with regard to the matter since my Communication of 4th May 2023. Firstly, my office is in receipt of letters dated 4th May 2023 from the Jubilee Party terminating the membership of Hon. Kanini Kega and Hon. Sabina Chege. The letters are addressed to the Office of the Registrar of Political Parties and the Speaker of the National Assembly. In relation to the said termination, my office has further been copied in correspondence from the Office of the Registrar of Political Parties dated 8th May 2023, requesting for particulars from the Jubilee Party on the process leading to the termination of the membership of Hon. Kanini Kega and Hon. Sabina Chege. Secondly, my office was copied in correspondence dated 2nd June 2023 between the Jubilee Party and the Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition. In the correspondence, a Mr Nelson Dzuya, who signed off as the National Chairperson of the Jubilee Party, requested the Speakers of Parliament to refrain from effecting changes to the leadership of Parliament and Committee membership pending the determination of a dispute between the party and the Azimio Coalition. Thirdly, and of most importance, on 31st May 2023, my office also received a letter from the Leader of the Minority Party, Hon. James Opiyo Wandayi, MGH, communicating the election of the Member for Embakasi West, Hon. Mark Mwenje, as the Deputy Minority Whip. In his letter, the Leader of the Minority Party conveyed that the election was done at a meeting held by the Minority Party on Tuesday, 30th May 2023. Further, the Leader of the Minority Party indicated that the letter was a follow-up to his earlier letter dated 6th April 2023, which notified the Speaker of the removal of Hon. Sabina Chege as the Deputy Minority Whip."
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