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    "id": 401651,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ethuro",
    "speaker_title": "The Speaker",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 158,
        "legal_name": "Ekwee David Ethuro",
        "slug": "ekwee-ethuro"
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    "content": " Order, Senators! Sen. Murkomen has raised quite a fundamental issue in terms of an errant Member who has been dewhipped by a party, and then he is brought by another party. That is a matter that might defeat the purpose why, in the first place, that Member was dewhipped. Because if the Member is to be brought back by another party and, perhaps, a party opposed to that other party, you can really understand the dilemma there. I think that is something we need to think through in the light of what Sen. Kajwang has also said about the position of parties within the House. But on the issue of whether a party or a coalition of parties can nominate a Member from another party, that has happened before in the Parliament of the Republic of Kenya and, so, a precedent has already been set including, I suppose, even if we had an independent who, for some reason, decides to work with a particular party; or if the party felt that, that independent Senator can make a more useful contribution to a particular Committee, then I see nothing in my view to stop that party from doing so. So, that is the position. As for the argument whether Sen. Murkomen referred to Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale as errant, and for Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale owning it up, I tend to agree with Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, because my favorite author, Chinua Achebe in Things Fall Apart wrote that “Every person---” and I have used the word “person” because those days, he was not that gender sensitive as I am paraphrasing – “becomes uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.” So, there is every reason for Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale to become very uneasy with your references. Thank you."
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