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"content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I do not know whether I pronounced something that gave that impression. If I did, forgive me my brother. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, so that people do not miss out on the weight of this matter of five per cent, this party that you call UDF, that is not getting five per cent, is not a small party at all. We have 97 Members of the County Assemblies (MCAs), 11 elected Members of the National Assembly in the Lower House and two Senators in the Upper House. In addition, we have a nominated Member of the National Assembly and a nominated Senator in the Upper House. Our Presidential candidate garnered 483,000 votes. That is a huge effort. So, when you leave us with this burden and we are supposed to carry it for five years, it simply means that for those people who love UDF, their party shall never grow. By the way, behind all these number ones in ODM and FORD Kenya, there were strong twos from UDF. We have a constituency like Lurambi Constituency in Kakamega, for example, where the sitting Member of the National Assembly beat the UDF candidate by 257 votes. The Member of the National Assembly for Shinyalu, who is in ODM, defeated the UDF candidate by 1,200 votes in a constituency of 65,000 registered voters. So, there is merit to this persuasion, and my senior colleague in the world of medicine, Prof. Lesan is here. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, my senior colleague in the world of Medicine, Prof. Lesan is here. I saw your reservations and they are well put. Let me come to them, as I persuade you to vote for this Bill. You are worried about the presidential results. According to the views of the public, they want us to cushion you, so that instead of relying on the agreement, memorandum of understanding, which has no force of law in getting the funding that you get within the Jubilee Coalition, they now want to introduce it into this Act, so that the Act speaks for you. This is important because politics is like two young teenagers when they get married. On the wedding day, none of them ever, looking into the beautiful faces of each other, contemplate the possibility of divorce. So, just like these young couples, a day might very well come, my dear brother, Professor--- If you ask Sen. (Dr.) Machage, who is in the Chair this afternoon, he will tell you that this is not theory. A time might very well come when you will break out from Jubilee before the end of the five years. Since your party leader did not run on URP, he ran on TNA. Therefore, he is not a member of URP. That is the law. So, he will be stuck there because to attempt to do otherwise, it means that he relinquishes his position as the Deputy President of Kenya. The TNA carrying the big whip, will whip you by simply closing the funding taps. These are the things that we want to bring in, so that we respect each other, even when we are in a coalition. I would like you to take your mind back to the contribution by Sen. Orengo. Sen. Orengo is in the biggest party in the country, which is ODM. But he is remembering that things change. Even the Chair, if he will allow me to use his example, once upon a time The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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