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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ojode",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security",
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        "legal_name": "Joshua Orwa Ojode",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have listened to my colleagues contributing to this particular Motion. They raised cardinal issues which are included in this Report. One of the issues which are captured very well is on page 6. It says the relations are guided by the need to protect Kenya’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, security and political stability and enhancement of peaceful co-existence and good neighbourliness. I have heard my colleagues talk. When a Question arose here in the morning and I was answering it, you saw the pressure that, that Question brought. The pressure was just about the identification of the particular individuals who are traveling. I mentioned - and lucky enough you were also in the House - that the IATA regulations and rules must be followed to the letter. I do not think that constitutes any discrimination. We must have rules; even in Parliament we have our rules. We have our Standing Orders and one of them is Standing Order No.1. It is the Speaker’s discretion to exclude or include a Member in the House or to do anything within his powers. That is Standing Order No.1! It gives the Speaker’s powers even to exclude Mr. Affey from this House. By the time the Speaker is ordering Mr. Affey out, that is not discriminative at all. We should not go back to our rules and ask: “Why should the Speaker expel Mr. Affey who is coming from North Eastern Province?” No!"
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