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    "id": 256045,
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    "type": "speech",
    "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": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I will soon vacate the Floor. I celebrate the fact that we are having a very civil discussion on this issue. We are ventilating opinions on the traditions and procedures of this House, as to whether what happened in the past was good basis for a tradition or not. To my mind, the precedent set in the past 22 March, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 21 was a good one; that portfolios in Parliamentary Committees are assigned to parties on the basis of their strength in the House. When there is a formal leadership of a parliamentary party shifting sides, the portfolio of that party shifts the side with the party. When Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) crossed the Floor of the House, Dr. Shem Ochuodho remained in the Opposition. He did not cross over. Today, if an hon. Member of FORD (P) decides to remain on another side other than that of his party, he can be adopted, as an oryx can be adopted by a lioness. However, he cannot pretend that his party belongs to the lion."
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