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    "id": 414772,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/414772/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Members are asked why they are not speaking like hon. A.B. Duale. However, this is because he has that ranking and the other leader who is our Minority Leader has that ranking. However, once you leave those officials, the other pecking order is in order of when you joined Parliament. Mbadi joined Parliament ahead of me. Yes, that is the practice. I want to be very categorical that that is parliamentary practice. It is not Millie who has established that and if we want to depart from it, we can only depart by a conscious amendment of our procedure where we indicate that even though this is the parliamentary procedure but, in the Kenyan Parliament, we want to depart from it. We want to ignore seniority. Even in the legal practice, it is done that way. You will find the person who signs the roll ahead is always your senior. So, that is why you find people who are senior to me in Parliament, but I am senior in my legal profession. So, if we want to depart from it, we must put it in our Standing Orders. But so long as Kenya is part of that system, then it is a practice. So, we must consciously make a choice."
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