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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wandayi",
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I will be very brief. I want to start by re-emphasising the fact that the Report we are debating today is a product of political negotiations. That fact is very important to note because, as correctly put by the Deputy Speaker, this process involved both parties to the conflict. Therefore, I am happy that the Deputy Speaker has ruled that any further amendments to this Report and subsequent legislative proposals would need concurrence of both sides of the House. I want to say this because even though the amendment by Hon. Olago Aluoch has passed, at the time of debating the Bill, it is important to note that it will be necessary for any possible amendments to happen only if there is consensus from both sides of the House. That is important even on this matter which has been amended in this Report. It is also important to note that in a negotiation, there is give and take. We, as the CORD or the ODM, there are things that we would have wanted to happen. They did not happen but we have to live with what has been produced by this Committee. I cannot advocate for the politics of throwing the baby with the bath water. That would be very retrogressive and unwise. We recognise that the vexing issue of party hopping was essentially a Jubilee Party idea. As CORD or ODM, we had no business caging our members. Be that as it may, it is also important to reiterate the fact that it takes all of us to contribute to the maturity of political parties."
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