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    "id": 282255,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Medical Services",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is my understanding that Mr. Orengo moved a Procedural Motion before we go to the substantive Motion. Dr. Khalwale has proceeded to discuss the substantive Motion rather than the Procedural Motion. My point is that we must first of all dispose of the Procedural Motion and then we can go to the substantive Motion. The Procedural Motion is that this House orders that the business appearing in today’s Order Paper be exempted from the provisions of that Standing Order. I think Members have to make a decision on whether we are exempting; skip discussing Private Members’ Motions so that we go to the Motion at Order No.9. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think on the Procedural Motion I support it. When we come to the substantive Motion, hon. Members can raise their various objections. One of the reasons I think it is important to discuss this Motion today is precisely so that Members do not lose track of what they have been discussing, and get over this discussion, and so that we can move to much more urgent things as Members are saying. I think that the President raised very important issues in his Speech to the House and, indeed, the nation. One of them was about political parties which I think hon. Members who come from a political party need to discuss because since Independence, we have had a history of changes in political parties which have not been very good in this country, particularly during the authoritarian regimes that have passed. We have now reached an era under the new Constitution which gives legal protection to political parties. Indeed, the Political Parties Act describes how political parties will be reformed and how they will function. Since the President made a very important contribution in his Speech saying that we need ideological political parties which focus on issues, I think that is something very urgent that I think we should discuss. So I think hon. Members should let us conclude the Procedural Motion so that we can go to the substantive Motion where Dr. Khalwale can now make his point or recall his points so that he puts them on the table. But just before I stop, when he said “thanks” it does not mean that you flatter. The word “thanks” has many meanings. The word “thanks” in English can mean appreciate, commend, approve--- You cannot thank somebody for something you do not approve of. If somebody kicks you on the back, you cannot thank them unless you are Jesus."
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