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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I understand the thought process of Hon. Munuve. This is a House of rules. I saw the things Hon. Munuve was saying recently when His Excellency the President visited Kambaland. I then said that maybe whoever is trying to mete out punishment on him is right. When you talk about sycophancy--- I watched him on TV talk about his leaders. How do you expect to be led if you abuse your leaders in public? My good friend, the Leader of the Majority Party, you have been here. When I felt you were being victimised by your party, I stood up for you and many other Members and I kept you in committees. I refused political machinations. We have just been treated to a debate this afternoon when students were sitting here. We tried. They have left here knowing that this House may one day wish to tell them that education is not important. They were sitting there watching. This 11th Parliament will go down in history to have done very little as the first one under the new Constitution. We are doing very little. I want to appreciate the feelings of my friend Chepkong’a and the reply by Hon. Mwadeghu to be mature. That to me is laudable. Sometimes you may be offended. There is nothing unmanly or ungodly in saying sorry. There is nothing. People have to move forward. We have to move this country forward. When people are not talking, there are ways. How I hope that we could, in reversing our Standing Orders, go to the old Standing Orders. These Standing Orders were brought here on the eve of the dissolution of Parliament. I sat here at midnight. Hon. Speaker, when you were the Chair of the Centre for Multiparty Democracy (CMD), more than five times, we requested the then administration of Parliament to let us revise these Standing Orders and compare them with what happens in other democracies. 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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