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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
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        "legal_name": "Raila Amolo Odinga",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, in this House, people should reason rather than dictate to each other. In the morning when we were discussing here, you ruled that you were adjourning the House, so that there could be consultations between the various parties. We started the consultations here, but they never went very far. This was in the spirit in which hon. Ngilu ceded her slot and said that she wanted it to be taken by a more deserving party. Over lunch time, I have spent a lot of time looking at Erskine May on the issue of Parliamentary procedure, particularly with regard to whipping of hon. Members. I have also consulted the Standing Orders of the House of Commons. If you will remember, the Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs in her contribution this morning said that the Whip has extensive powers to whip hon. Members on disciplinary grounds. I want to submit here that the Whip does not have unilateral powers to de-whip any hon. Member. These are issues that are discussed in parliamentary group meetings of the respective parties and hon. Members who are supposedly being de-whipped are given an opportunity to defend themselves. Standing Order No.131, which confers to the ruling party 13 slots in the House Business Committee includes hon. Members, I included, who are supposedly being de-whipped."
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