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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kimaru",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Mutahi Kimaru",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support this Motion as amended. We shall all remember the kind of acrimony we had yesterday. We were on the brink of throwing away the baby with the bath water. There was that elephant that was so eloquently described by Hon. Millie Odhiambo which is now out of the Report. We can now move forward. We can see the sobriety that is hovering all over this room. We are able as legislators to move forward. As legislators and with the leadership that we had yesterday, I would like to start by applauding the Deputy Speaker for making the right decision. If she had not made that decision probably this Motion would have failed yesterday. There are those who will criticise her but she made the right decision to allow that amendment. Without that amendment, we would not have been able to move forward. So, she did the right thing in the spirit of give and take and consensus as demonstrated by the Joint Select Committee that sat to pave the way forward. We saw Hon. Moses Kuria and Sen. Muthama sit in the same Committee. They were able to agree. What greater demonstration of what we can do as a nation! As we move forward to the next election, it is the prayer of everyone of us and the nation that that election shall be peaceful and credible. Even as I believe Jubilee will be triumphant, I would also like the CORD to sit in the comfort that the process shall be credible and that the results that will be announced will be acceptable to all. So, from the good work that was done by the Joint Select Committee and what we are doing today, because I am sure we are going to pass the recommendations and the Report as amended, I must reiterate that for my good friend Hon. A.B. Duale to get--- We are going to pass the Report as amended. The import of that is that the restriction on party hopping has been removed from this Report. Moving forward, I believe it shall not be in any legislation of this House. It is not that I would want to party hop. I will be in Jubilee and I am there to stay. But even as I win, I would 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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