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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ochieng’",
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        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
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    "content": "Someone would want to forum shop; if I go to this Committee, I will get a favourable judgment, if I go to this one I am sure I will be fried. So, you forum-shop, look for some money somewhere and you know you are going to do your things. These are the real issues that face this Assembly. When I say that and someone is saying: “Substantiate”, the person saying that is the one who knows what he does when others are not watching. The major problem we have in this Assembly is that we have Reports that have taken too long to come. Some Committees come to you the very last day so that you may add them time. This has happened in this Assembly. We have been debating it in this Assembly without reports of those Committees simply because someone is waiting somewhere for something to happen before you can do a report or he can change an “a” to an “e”, so that it fits the interests that are concerned. Hon. Speaker, we must give you the necessary authority and capacity to put your feet down and work on corruption in this country. We cannot do if we pander and play ping pong with ourselves and our words. We must be clear. Some of us are very young and we cannot go down with somebody who wants to be corrupt in the Assembly. We cannot. We must put our feet down and say that Parliament will once more be the 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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