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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": "The Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs is composed of 29 Members of Parliament; 18 from the Jubilee Coalition and 11 from the CORD Coalition. If it is a question of participation, we will allow them to have their say. We have always acted in a consensus manner. We have never taken a vote except in the Petition of Mr. Wafula Buke. In all other instances, we have participated in this Committee through consensus. It is unfair for somebody to come here and say that the CORD coalition was denied an opportunity to participate in the Committee’s proceedings, and that is why they were de-whipped. They were not de-whipped. They withdrew from the Committee to deny us quorum. Quorum in any committee is nine members. I sit in the Committee as the Member for Ainabkoi Constituency, elected on a United Republican Party (URP) ticket. I was not elected on a Jubilee ticket. I do not represent the Jubilee Coalition in Parliament. I represent the URP. We have nine parties in the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. So, for somebody to belittle me by saying that I represent a party which I do not is unacceptable. He should go and read how I came to this House. Let us not insult the people of Ainabkoi. They elected me as a URP member, and they are very sane. Therefore, we must be very careful."
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