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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lati",
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        "legal_name": "Jonathan Lelelit Lati",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I thank you for your guidance. I said at the outset that I support the Motion. However, I have a few reservations I want to speak about. Firstly, when the Motion came here for the first time, hon. Members raised issues, which I think are very important to us, as a country. Of course, we know what the Senate is entitled to do, constitutionally. They are supposed to represent the interests of the counties. As a person, I do not see any interest of Samburu County being represented at the PAP. I think it is wrong. We are setting a very bad precedent, as a House. The only Members who are supposed to go to the PAP are Members of the National Assembly. The next thing I would like to note is that when we came here, we were told that 80 per cent of this House comprised of new Members. So, “new Members” is another category of Members of Parliament – people who have not been in Parliament before. Having 80 per cent of the membership of this House not being represented at the PAP is not right. Even in terms of probability, if you have red and yellow balls stashed together in a sack and you are blindfolded and asked to pick a certain number of balls, it is not probable that you will only pick out red balls. It is impossible. Some things are possible but they are not probable. This is something that is not probable. Therefore, I want to make note of the fact that, as new Members, we should also be represented at the PAP. I take offence at remarks made by an hon. Member to the effect that new Members are not as good as old Members. That statement speaks volumes about our people. It implies that since I am a new Member, representing Samburu East Constituency, my people are inferior to those people being represented here by hon. Members who have been to this House many times before. That notion is wrong and, therefore, we should not be harbouring such ideas."
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