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    "id": 690576,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nuh",
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        "legal_name": "Junet Sheikh Nuh",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I was a member of the Joint Select Committee, and I want to congratulate it for doing a very good job. You remember the circumstances under which that Committee was formed by Parliament. People were demonstrating in the streets causing mayhem as one of the Members has just alluded to. We were led to the streets by Hon. Kajwang’. Some Members have forgotten about the history of this matter. The Joint Select Committee comprised of Members from both the Majority and Minority parties. Both sides of the Committee had their own demands, which they said were irreducible minimums. The spirit of give and take prevailed in consultation with their party principals and leadership. I am shocked the Deputy Leader of the Minority Party whom I respect so much does not even know what a public portal is. I did not know he is so ignorant about electronic matters. I came to know today that he does not know what a public portal means. He asked, “what is a public portal?” in front of Kenya’s cameras. For those who do not believe in party ideals, nobody has forced you to stay in a party. You can leave your party even today if you want – the way Mwaura has done. I really congratulate the mzungu man. He said “I am leaving my party which is the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) today.” You do not wait for 21 days to decide whether you want to leave your party or not. For the last three years, I have not agreed with Jubilee on anything, but I agree with them today on the matter of party-hopping. In that, I support Jubilee 100 per cent. If I am a mole because of that, I want to be a mole from today. The people who are saying this Committee has not done any work and that it would have done better work than this and are saying this Bill should be transferred to the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs are the same people who dewhipped their Members from the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs when they wanted to do the Bill. They wrote to you as the Speaker. They said, “as Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD), we have removed our people from that Committee.” The leadership of this CORD removed those Members. Today, they are here saying the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs should do the work. That is hypocrisy and it should be denounced totally. This Joint Select Committee has done the much they can. If you are a good parliamentarian, you will have an opportunity to amend anything you want and bring any law you want on the same matter after six months. Some Members are old here but they are speaking like me who has just come here for the first time. It is really sad. Let me be honest with Members here, if this Bill does not go through, Jubilee has nothing to lose. CORD has everything to lose. They have to go back to the streets, they will be killed by police, they will be tear-gassed and be beaten to death."
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