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    "id": 1515624,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "We have a beautiful Constitution because it gives powers to enjoy rights, including the right of association that is the most important thing in our Constitution. Chapter Four of our Constitution on the Bill of Rights is what has built our Constitution to be amongst the progressive Constitutions in the world. Therefore, the 14 Members in question—from United Democratic Movement (UDM), Pamoja African Alliance (PAA), Movement for Democracy and Growth (MDG), and Maendeleo Chap Chap Party (MCCP) - enjoy certain rights that not an Act of Parliament can take away from them. Including the right to associate. No court or law can tell the Member of Ugenya from MDG party that he must remain in the Azimio Coalition. There is no court or Act of Parliament, including the Political Parties Act that was acrimoniously passed in this House at the tail-end of the last Parliament, can force the eight Members of UDM to associate with the Azimio Coalition. That cannot happen. That is why I disagree with the court to a large extent. The 14 Members enjoy certain inalienable rights to enjoy their right of association and associate with the political coalitions they desire. They told us that letters were tabled here, including letters from the Registrar of Political Parties that I have seen. The letters ascertain that MDG, UDM, PAA, and Maendeleo Chap Chap have left Azimio. The leader of the Jubilee Party in this House, Hon. Sabina Chege, today enjoys the position as a Whip of an independent parliamentary political party called the Jubilee Party. On that basis, Jubilee Party cannot shall not and shall never be counted as part of the Azimio Coalition."
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