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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Otieno",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Public Service",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a very serious matter and it is politics which has extended at a very low level but too far. It cannot be an excuse that an hon. Member of this House was just joking. Some of us are professionals who are handling very large amounts of money on behalf of clients. Some of us here are diligent debaters who take their time to prepare and convince their colleagues on issues before the House. The issue of rumour and Members being bribed has gone on for too long. If you travel to the constituencies of the Members of this House, that is when you will know why a person was elected because he is highly respected by very many people. He is highly regarded by very many people in his constituency for him to have about 30,000, 40,000, 50,000 or 100,000 votes. This cannot be trashed by colleagues joking after losing a Motion. Mr. Speaker, Sir, action must be taken to an extent that we set the precedence that we will discipline ourselves henceforth to protect the image and name of this House to remain honourable and professional so that people can trust what we do and the decisions that we make. More so, when the next Parliament comes to exercise through Oversight Authority over the Executive, we must not arrive there with tainted image like the manner that hon. Khalwale has been trying to do and portray before this House. It is also a challenge to all our Departmental Committees to do a thorough job so that their failure is not reflected by cheap propaganda that they were rejected for simple reasons as bribery and worse for amounts that every Member here knows that he cannot even survive with for a few hours in his constituency. We cannot take this as a joking matter. We beseech you to take decisive action so that we discipline ourselves in future."
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