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    "id": 1358062,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I came running from the office. So, if I pant, it is because I came running. You know I am a stickler to the rules and procedures of the House. I was listening as Hon. Ken Chonga made his contribution. He was challenged through a point of order by Hon. KJ, and Hon. Chonga asserted that he did not use the term ‘lies.’ We must be a House that adheres to our own rules and procedures because Hon. Ken Chonga talked about ‘the kind of lies being said to us by the Leader of the Majority Party and his Deputy.’ There is something called statement of fact. Hon. Ken Chonga has been in this House long enough to know our rules. Therefore, he cannot, on the basis of a point of order raised by the Hon. KJ, assert that he did not use the term ‘lies.’ He actually stated that, ‘the kind of lies being told to us…’ You know we are not speaking to Hon. Ken Chonga. We are speaking to the country and we are not telling lies. That language is unparliamentary. We must not allow Hon. Ken Chonga to get away with it because we are degrading the dignity of this House by allowing Members to utter careless statements without substantiating and without giving facts. Give us a statement of fact. What is it that the Leader of the Majority Party or his Deputy said that was untrue? Hon. Members do not tell lies. The Member for Kilifi North cannot be telling lies. He is a Member of Parliament."
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