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    "id": 459719,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Alouch",
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        "legal_name": "John Olago Aluoch",
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    "content": "It provides to the effect that where decisions of the Committee are not unanimous, it is expected that the report will indicate the names of those who voted for the report, those who abstained and those who voted against the report. That is clearly lacking in the report and up to now, it has not been addressed. Hon. Speaker, Sir, you heard yesterday from the Chairman of the Committee, as he was moving this special Motion, that three dissents were recorded; these were hon. Nyokabi, hon. Ayah and myself. But later on, after the meeting, hon. Nyokabi decided to remove my names from the dissent record. Is that an admission of an irregularity in the record? Is that something that we can simply cover up and move on? I am saying all this because for the first in the history of this country, and for the first time under the Constitution of Kenya 2010, this House is being asked to set a precedent. We are going to set a precedent, but it is not going to be followed long after we have gone. It will be a precedent on what this Parliament can do as a House in terms of constitutional offices set up under Article 261. Hon. Speaker, Sir, hon. Wamalwa, cleared the point, but I think the way he was gesticulating all over and appearing very frivolous, he was not given the chance. But he was trying to say that under the Constitution, removing an officer under the article, there must be not just an irregularity; it must be a serious irregularity. Why was the word “serious” put in the Constitution? The word “serious” was put because---"
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