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    "id": 351721,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/351721/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ganya",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for North Horr",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Francis Chachu Ganya",
        "slug": "francis-ganya"
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, Sir, I also want to congratulate you on your election as the Speaker of this Eleventh Parliament. I want to support this Motion; I want to do so because there is a major reform as far as our Standing Orders are concerned. I served in the Tenth Parliament; I recall that at that time being appointed to a Committee was basically at the mercy of the whip; the names appeared at the House Business Committee (HBC) and eventually ended up here. I recall that when at the time a member of the Pentagon of a party, a deputy leader of that party, was rejected, together with some of us, because he did not tow the party line at the time; you were at the mercy of an individual called the whip. Now, we have a Selection Committee, an organ of this House, which will debate and pick Members on their merits to respective Committees."
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