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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Jakoyo, you need to relax. I am the one who rose on a point of order. I can speak for another 20 minutes with the permission of the Speaker. This is a very serious matter. Let us not trivialise it. Let us not put it in a context. The best Hon. Wandayi could have done was to appeal to the Powers and Privileges Committee which you chair. I am sure if he appealed to that Committee and the Members came from both sides and convinced you, Hon. Wandayi would have been back in this House long time ago. Hon. Wandayi cannot be brought back by a court of law through the suspension of Standing Orders. That is illegal. History will judge those of us who are in the 11th Parliament. You know what we went through in the last two weeks about the CDF. We are going through a period where a judge suspends--- What happens if two Members of Parliament kill each other or commit a crime? It does not matter. Your voters did not send you to this House to misbehave. They did not send you to this House to commit crime. Our voters did not send us to this House so that we abuse the privilege given to us. That is why Standing Order No.111 gives you that power to apply it in an exceptional case. This is the House that is supposed to be a role model. What is going to happen is that all the Members who were de-whipped from committees will go to court against the wish of their political party and the Standing Orders. When the whips de-whipped Members, Members agreed because they follow and respect Standing Orders. You cannot have the cake and eat it. You cannot de-whip Members and say you are following Standing Orders but you go to court and ask a judge who has a history--- I can bring a substantive Motion to discuss Judge Odunga. We have no problem with the Judiciary but we have a serious problem with Judge Odunga. Nothing can stop any one of us from bringing a substantive Motion to discuss judges in the Judiciary who want to become squatters in the other arms of Government which they do not belong. I do not know where Judge Odunga comes from. I am sure he can vie for a seat in 2017. He can even apply to be the Speaker of the National Assembly. These are fundamental issues. I 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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