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    "id": 510231,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Kamotho was a principled politician in the sense that, once he did something, he believed in it. There are two examples that I will give. One was when he believed in KANU and President Moi’s leadership. He would go to great lengths to defend that position. Many people were offended by that, but he believed in it and supported it. However, when he felt the former President Moi made mistakes in terms of appointing, or rather anointing the current President, Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, to be the President from 2003, the late hon. J.J Kamotho decided to break with tradition. No one expected him to break away from KANU, thus making him a principled politician, whether you like it or hate it. I am not really sure whether I can compare him with the Leader of Majority Party, hon. A.B. Duale. To me, it has not come out clearly what hon. A.B. Duale is fighting for or what he stands for, apart from the fact that in all cases he tries to support everything that comes from Executive. Hon. Speaker, it is equally not so clear to me why the Leader of Majority Party would compare himself to hon. Ababu Namwamba and myself. Hon. A.B. Duale, the Leader of Majority Party holds no position in his party. He holds a position that we do not know who appointed him to. He was just told “You go and be the Leader of Majority Party”. In fact, by a phone call, he can cease to be the Leader of Majority Party in this House. For me to cease to be the Chairman of the largest party in East and Central Africa, you have to call a party organ called National Governing Council. Therefore, there is a huge difference between the Leader of Majority Party, hon. Ababu Namwamba and me. The two of us have substantive positions in a serious political party."
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