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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Chairman, Sir, I am conscious of the fact that in this House, we do not have a shortage of legal minds that can debate and articulate this constitutionality. My concern is the question of procedure. As far as procedure is concerned, this train that we are driving now did not start this afternoon. It started yesterday and decisions were made after passionate contributions. The contribution made by hon. Olago is actually a contribution that could have been made when he was trying to persuade us, especially those of us who are not lawyers, to vote with him yesterday when we were taking the decision. That yesterday, the decision was taken; my belief on procedure is that we cannot reverse a decision which was made through a point of order. The procedure would be that you would reverse it with a Motion. Where is the Motion before you trying to reverse what we decided yesterday? Because we want to demonstrate that we are in a hurry, willing to make sure that we pass the Political Parties Bill, the door is not closed for amendments and all the Members know that. When the matter will go to the President for assent, he will address everything and any little mess that we might have committed in this House and refer it back to us. Let us allow the train to move and then if there are any considerations, they will be considered at the time of assent."
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