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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, we listened to hon. (Eng.) Gumbo; he should listen to me and have his chair. We listened to you. The same for hon. Member for Kibra. Great leaders are not defined by the absence of their weakness, but by the presence of their clear strength. What are we doing today? If one Member of this House has an integrity issue, by extension all of us will have aspersion cast on us. Time has come when we must call a spade a spade. Time has come when the 349 of us must stand to be counted to protect the dignity of the institution of National Assembly. If the 349 of us stand and protect the dignity of this House, I am sure that the Speaker, who is a human being like us--- The evidence adduced by hon. Musimba is the proceedings of the HANSARD. If the Speaker spoke in this way, then the question is, how was that Member behaving? You cannot only judge the Speaker. When the Speaker says: “Hon. Duale, this is not a market place”, then I must have been behaving as if I was in a market in Garissa! So this is two-way traffic. If all of us from 2.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. live by the Standing Orders, the way the august House is supposed to be run, then the Speaker will not be in a position to go to that extent; if we come to our chairs --- I sat in the last Parliament. I want to disagree with my colleague that former Speaker Marende was to be impeached at one time. I was leading that crusade, for one fundamental grave mistake he committed. It was the media who gave him Solomonic wisdom. It was not the Members of Parliament of then."
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