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    "id": 686145,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/686145/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I want to say that the elephant in the room is the issue of party hopping. We have just come from a very difficult situation, as a country. Only the other day, people demonstrated on the streets and several of them were killed. We have been given the responsibility, as Parliament, to push this country forward. Most of us, especially from the CORD coalition side, had agreed to support the Report without amendment of even a comma or a full stop. However, we have read the mood of the House, which is that people want party hopping because of the issue of lack of maturity of most of our political parties. Because of that, in order to enable this country to move forward, let us support the amendment by Hon. Olago Aluoch to allow members to party-hop as our parties grow and mature. Because other Members have also suggested that there are further amendments that should be introduced in the Report, as soon as we finish with the amendment by Hon. Olago, let the other Members move the subsequent amendments they may want to attach to the elephant in the room, which is party hopping. I plead with my fellow Members. I know that when we come here, sometimes there is excitement to do"
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