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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Kituyi",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Trade and Industry",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mukhisa Kituyi",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, that ties very nicely into my next statement about what constitutes electing. This House cannot preside on choosing what method constituent parties of this House use in presenting to the House through its constituted parliamentary leadership, candidates for any position. I have a good precedent! I was the Chief Whip of the Opposition in the seventh Parliament. When at the start of 1993 we were constituting Committees of this House, my Parliamentary leader, Mr. Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, asked me to tell our PG to give me their CVs. I sat down with him and we assigned hon. Members of our PG to Parliamentary Committees. When we held a PG meeting, we informed them about what positions they were going to hold. However, the matter had to be brought to the House for it to accept. The exercise is: Can this House vote that these are now hon. Members of the Select Committees or not? However, the House cannot question whether Mr. Jaramogi and Dr. Kituyi chose the persons or the PG had an election. It is not up to you to decide for us whether, as NARC, we had an election or not. However, the duly constituted Parliamentary leadership of our party presents to you a list of hon. Members and ask, as a House, that you vote on whether to accept that list or not. Finally, it may be true that the Government of National Unity (GNU) is for purposes of voting. It is a consequence of a part of Government moving to an Opposition without being accommodated by the Official Opposition in fielding the numbers. Normally, if you are friends of KANU and you have gone to the KANU side of the House, KANU will accommodate you by appointing some of your own on its list presented to the House. However, you cannot expect those you are rebelling from, to do you a favour! With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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