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    "id": 462383,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyenze",
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        "legal_name": "Francis Mwanzia Nyenze (Deceased)",
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    "content": "some areas or we will be seen as sycophants or as people trying to protect a certain class of people. I watched when Members were trying to defend the gracious lady Gladys Shollei and some Members went overboard. You know, it is good to defend someone but it is also good to let due process of the law take its course. There were very many other people who were sacked. The Director of Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) is a very gracious lady. We go to the same church. She is called Mrs. Oduor. She is our choir mistress and she is a very true Christian and when she was laid off, nobody raised a finger here. I do not swear but I can stand here and say that she cannot take anything that does not belong to her. But then she was sacked. When we were taking tea in the dining hall, someone told me that we have to create space for the people who voted us. So, she lost her job and when it comes to Gladys Shollei, 40 Members of Parliament came out fighting for her. Nobody fought for Mrs. Oduor apart from a few of us and because of the tyranny of numbers, we lost. I just want to tell you Members of the National Assembly that it is good to unite this country when we are impartial and not tribalistic. We should stand for the truth. The chairs of the committees and members of the committees should be impartial and stand by the truth because we are called honourable Members. Hon. Speaker, so, my humble submission is that you make a ruling today on areas where we should not exceed or go beyond. That is because unless you do that, Members will keep on repeating and they will ridicule this House. We will be seen as puppets and protecting some people and not protecting others because either we have self interests or they come from our tribes. What of that Turkana who does not have someone here? What of that Pokomo and people from marginalised tribes or Ogieks, like hon. Jimmy Angwenyi is saying? We have to treat all Kenyans equally. My last shot, hon. Speaker, because I know you will give a ruling, is that there has been a systematic sacking of members who belong to CORD zones and I have counted them. Surely, this Jubilee Government should check on that because it is creating instability. Thank you very much, hon. Speaker, Sir and I stand corrected."
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