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    "id": 1252232,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise on a point of order and an issue of the Constitution. Article 24 of the Constitution gives powers to the formation of committees. We also have Standing Order No. 198. What is happening is very unfortunate. We shall need a considered opinion. At least, every Member shall belong to a committee. Mr. Speaker, Sir, do you remember the Registrar of Political Parties (RPP) gave a verdict that Sen. Okiya Omtatah, was a non-aligning Member of both the Majority or Minority side? Nonetheless, he caucuses with the Majority side, yet he has been allocated a committee by the Minority side. It is a fallacy and abuse of the Constitution because in hindsight, the Minority side is telling this House, as the Senate Deputy Minority Whip has stated, that the Jubilee Party Members are still part of their Coalition, but should not have access to any committee. That is committing a travesty of justice. It is unconstitutional. I have a considered ruling and if I am allowed, I shall table what the former Speaker and current Attorney General (AG), Justice Muturi, ruled on the case of Mr. David Ochieng’. It was a commitment where the Minority side, apparently the same culprits here, tried to de-whip the Member of Parliament for Ugenya, David Ochieng’ from the Departmental Committee on Health. In his considered opinion, the Speaker emeritus of the National Assembly found that illegality, an abuse of the rule of law, and a violation of Standing Orders and the Constitution. Even on morality, they were going against what the Standing Orders have bestowed on us. I do not have a problem with the formation of a special committee to investigate the impeachment of the Deputy Governor of Siaya County. I have a problem with disenfranchisement and abuse of the law. For the record, when we started--- I am on a point of order under Standing Order No. 198. In the last session where the Senate Minority Whip was a Member, Jubilee Party tried to do to us what the Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Alliance is trying to do now. In fact, they were worse. They used to de-whip, arrest and prosecute you."
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