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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Laboso",
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        "legal_name": "Joyce Cherono Laboso",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon Speaker. I wish to thank the Leader of the Majority for bringing this matter to the attention of the House. You are aware that this is a matter that has really concerned us very seriously. As leadership in the House, it is a matter that is making us also feel very uncomfortable about being leaders in a House that is so condemned. This is a matter that we dealt with quite candidly while in our retreat in Mombasa. I believe that some of the measures that we recommended are going to help us look at this much more comprehensively. As Members, we are pouring out our hearts. We want to do that, but we do not just want to talk about it. We want to be given a way forward in terms of how we are going to address it. How are we going to address the question of privilege? How are we going to improve mechanisms of the issues that we are raising in terms of how we are going to find the evidence? Who is going to find the evidence that these allegations are actually happening? So, there are quite a few recommendations that were given and you will be getting them through a report from the Powers and Privileges Committee. But Members, each of us is responsible for the actions that each of us engages in. You cannot disassociate yourself because as Members speak now, please, know that all of us are in it. It is not a question of Jubilee or CORD. When the Press writes about us out there, they do not talk about Jubilee or CORD, they talk about the National Assembly. Therefore, Members, we need to come into this together. As I have said, you will be getting the recommendations that were made by your leaders in Mombasa. I believe very strongly that some of them are going to help us to curb this vice."
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