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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gikaria",
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to support this amendment by hon. Keynan. Hon. Kaluma just suggested that we should not be mentioning some governors because we are seen as if we are politicizing the amendment, but I think the amendment has arisen out of what the governors are doing with regard to flying flags and the use of names; it is not us, as Members of Parliament. It is not also the Senators or any other person. It is actually the governors who have misused this privilege of flying flags all the over place. We visited some functions over the weekend and everybody had a problem with how to address the Deputy President and the governors, who were there. It became very difficult for you to address them; everybody was perturbed as they did not know how to address the Deputy President and the two governors, who were present. We preferred to say “His Excellency the Deputy President, all protocols observed.” The best thing we need to do, as suggested by hon. Keynan when he visited our Committee, is to have the national flag as a symbol of unity. When it is used to show some might or positions within the counties, then it becomes a very difficult issue. One of the areas we visited after some committee meeting was Bomet. You find the governor there had two lead cars and four other chase cars and there was nobody else on the road. All the sirens were just on and they were trying to remove people from the road, yet there were no vehicles. So, I think the aspect of the national flag, the emblems and names is something, as suggested by hon. Keynan, proper for us to legislate on so as to stop misuse."
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