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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ochieng’",
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        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
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    "content": "Thank you so much, hon. Speaker. I want to thank the Leader of the Majority Party for bringing up this matter. The issue here could go either way in terms of how Parliament works. We work on the basis of privilege. The day you remove the privilege, or it is seen you are abusing it, that is the day you will be learning the way Parliament works. One tool that a Member of Parliament has that makes him work well is the privilege. That is why we must guard this tool very jealously. Hon. Speaker, your office must ensure that any Member who tries to abuse privilege, this is a matter that you must deal with decisively and in a manner that ensures that Members know that the moment you walk out of the bounds of this privilege, there is no protection. This must be very clear to every member. There is an alarming way in which we work. Members of this Assembly can walk into a Ministry, public body and purport or promise a Chief Executive Officer or a Cabinet Secretary of protection in Parliament. They do that every day. A chairman of a committee says: “When your The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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