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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "country, this National Assembly has a responsibility to resolve it. You can only know that an issue is of concern to a certain section of the society if they express that concern. I read the text from FIDA and I understood it to mean that it is concerned with the passage of the two-thirds gender principle rule. It was, therefore, informing the National Assembly, as their representatives, that they will be watching. This thing is covered public and they will be seeing us. We must know that they have an interest and it concerns them. The decision we are going to take is of concern to FIDA, the KNCHR and many Kenyans, including the people of Suba and Rarieda. I have difficulty because Hon. Gumbo, who is my friend, has a lot of experience in Parliament. I am sure he has shared how the lobbying happens elsewhere in the world. It is not true that we cannot be intimidated. We can be intimidated because we are people’s representatives. When you represent someone, that person has a right to intimidate you, if he feels you may not do what he wants you to do. In fact, I expect the people of Suba and Rarieda to be sending me texts and telling me they will be watching me voting this afternoon. I want to speak as the National Chairman of ODM. As a party, we have taken a stand. The National Executive Committee of ODM has taken a stand. We have issued instructions to our Members that they stand whipped to support this Bill this afternoon. Therefore, any Member of ODM must know that the position of the party is to support this Bill. There is no intimidation. It is about party whipping. We have whipped our Members accordingly. Therefore, I ask my brother, Hon. Gumbo, who is a very loyal Member of the party, that the position of ODM is that he is whipped to support the Bill this afternoon. Disregard the discomfort caused by any message coming from any quarter. He should take it from me, as the Chair of his party, that we must support this Bill this afternoon. I am talking about this without any ambiguity. I expect The National Alliance Party (TNA) and the United Republican Party (URP) to support the Bill as well. The Wiper Democratic Movement, Kenya, (WDM (K)) and the Forum for Restoration of Democracy– Kenya (FORD (K), as Coalition partners, support this Bill fully. Even the leader of the WDM (K) took his time last evening to be together with the Kenyans who are preparing to positively vote for this Bill this afternoon. That is the position of ODM."
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