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    "id": 1441028,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "They say that any name can raise a baby. You can be the Majority today, and tomorrow you are the Minority. There is absolutely nothing wrong in having a slip of the tongue and referring to Hon. Opiyo Wandayi as the Leader of Majority Party. I have at times heard people, by the slip of the tongue, refer to Hon. Junet as the Majority Whip. I am even at times referred to as the Leader of Minority Party, Majority Leader, and Majority Whip. Any name is okay provided that we do what we are supposed to do. Hon. Opiyo will tell you that in the last Parliament, the Majority side that was Jubilee became the Minority and had to depend on the Minority side in its own government to pretend to be the Majority. In the last two years, Hon. Kimunya was the Leader of the Majority Party, but he was actually the Leader of the Minority on the Majority side. This is because Hon. Aden Duale, who was a ranking Member like Hon. John Mbadi, was the Leader of the Majority on the Majority side. I want to thank Hon. Opiyo for raising this issue because it is important that we all get to an understanding of not just the import of this letter but of all the proposed amendments to the Finance Bill. It is good that when you were responding to Hon. Nyikal, you pointed out some of The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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