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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Sen. Njoroge is right in demanding that I explain what the President had done or said. I cannot because I was not there. You are asking me to be what I cannot be. It is for him and others who were there to challenge me if I am misleading the House when they will be making their interpretation. Mr. Speaker, Sir, may I appeal to Members that there will be times when it is only Parliament that can stop the country from moving into the wrong direction. Therefore, if we start intimidating Members from expressing themselves on behalf of the electorate, then we are converting this House into an institution that is dictatorial. You have watched that in South Africa, a speaker saying that President Jacob Zuma is a thief. She is ordered to withdraw and she says she will not withdraw because the President is a thief, and it ends there. I am not saying that this is what we should do, but you need to think about it. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you want to write your own history as the Speaker of the Senate of the Republic of Kenya, so that parliamentary democracy is enjoyed. How can the mere blowing of a whistle---"
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