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    "id": 688782,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kipyegon",
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        "legal_name": "Johana Ngeno Kipyegon",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I apologise and withdraw that. I am making a very serious statement that the reason why people will not allow others to hop, step and jump is because they want to kill their political future. It is not your problem, if I hop from one party to you, why should it be a problem to anybody? It is my choice. It is like “my dress, my choice” or “my party, my choice”. This is because these parties are funded by taxpayers money. You do not sell land to fund parties. I have never heard Raila Odinga selling cows to fund CORD nor do I hear Uhuru Kenyatta selling sheep to fund parties. We fund these parties with taxpayers’ money. This is public property. Even the Kenya National Congress (KNC), a party I belong to and love very much, although I was thinking of creating some relationship by hip-hopping with Jubilee is not private but public. Therefore, anybody who imagines in this country that he can kill other people’s political future because of blocking them from hip-hopping will not succeed. This is because we will not allow that. Although, we only allowed one amendment, there is another issue we must look at. Item 643 reads:- “(6) That, independent candidates forward their names to the IEBC 14 days before the nomination date.” The nomination date belongs to parties and not independent candidates. Why are you denying independent candidates a chance to present their nomination? Why are you anchoring it on nominations? These are independent people who might want to try their luck in the major parties. The moment they fail, they should be allowed to run on other parties or as independent candidates."
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