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    "id": 675746,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I also rise to support the Motion. I have heard the discussions by my colleagues. Sometimes when we sit in this House, we tend to forget the obvious. One of my best friends in this House is the Member for Ol Jorok. I was a bit surprised when he said that we, as CORD, sometimes run our affairs by remote control. The truth of the matter is that the leaders of our coalitions, whether Jubilee or CORD, do not sit in this House. To suggest that by sitting in this House we cannot listen to our leaders is misinformation. Only last week, we sat here and agreed on a matter that affects every Kenyan household and that is the matter of the NGCDF. We agreed that we would not pass the Budget without assurances on NGCDF. Our friends from the Jubilee Coalition came back and told us that the reason they passed the Budget in a matter of five minutes is because they had been read the riot act in a matter of two minutes. If our leaders do not matter, if that is not remote control leadership, then what is it?"
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