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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chepkong’a",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Kiprono Chepkonga",
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    "content": "I am not speculating. There is freedom of association and freedom of speech. I have reminded Hon. Chirs Wamalwa that we come from the same region. He ought not to be shouting at me. One of these days, I am going to call elders to speak to him. This is the second time. A third one, we will go there. I am very sympathetic to these Members. Why I am rising on a point of order is because I brought an amendment to these Standing Orders which I know is somewhere in the Procedure and House Rules Committee. I was asking whether it is in order to discharge Members while the Minority Whip knows that there is a pending amendment to delete that particular Standing Order which is unconstitutional. I am seeking your direction whether it is in order to de-whip people when there is a substantive amendment supported by over 50 Members of Parliament. It is a very serious matter of concern because my Motion is supported by over 50 Members of Parliament. Even those ones smiling on the opposite side are also very sympathetic to those who have been de-whipped. It is just that they have been stopped from speaking. They also fear that they will be de-whipped but we are also sympathetic to them. We also have our own rebels within our side and you know them. We can take parliamentary notice of them but, we do not act in a very undemocratic manner by de-whipping people because they have different views, including my own neighbour in Uasin Gishu. He spoke the other day and Hon. Jakoyo Midiwo was very happy that he spoke in the manner in which he did. He was congratulating him in my presence. So, I thought it was out of order but we did not want to de-whip him because he is exercising his democratic right."
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