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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. It is a great day. We are coming to the end of this session. Allow me to be very brief. Let me thank you for giving this House the leadership we have seen from the start of this session to date. The Speaker‘s panel has been very good. Hon. Rachel Shebesh has just been amazing. Hon. Jessica Mbalu is doing a great job. Hon. Chris Omulele is learning very fast under your tutelage. I commend them for the good work they have demonstrated. In this session, we passed very serious laws. As we go home, part of our duty will be to educate our people outside there on the benefits of those laws. I would like to request the concerned sectors like the banking sector to move as fast as the Cooperative Bank has and begin implementing the banking law without much ado and avail the benefits to Kenyans. Today, as we go home, I am happy about two fundamental things I have learned from this House. The idea of leadership is that you are followed. In fact, leadership is followership. Today, we have confirmed to the nation that there are leaders in this country and when they speak, they are followed. President Uhuru Kenyatta is a leader because when he speaks to an issue, it is followed. The Deputy President, William Ruto, is a leader because when he speaks it is followed. The Prime Minister and his team in the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy are leaders because when they speak it is followed. This is why we had very strong feelings about amendments that could be made. I had so many amendments. Because these great leaders had spoken when that negotiated instrument came forth and said that it should not be open to amendments, we put aside all those independent individual thoughts to confirm that leadership in our country means something. I request those leaders to intervene more in terms of how we will move the country forward. Secondly, a philosophy has developed in this House today. The philosophy of tyranny of numbers has diminished. Today there is a new philosophy christened tyranny of loyalists. For the first time, I enjoyed speaking in the same voice as the Leader of the Majority Party and other serious leaders across the aisle. That is the way we need to go. Today, we have developed the principle that Kenya is truly a multi-party democracy. I remember the words of President Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi in his last Jamhuri Day speech that when you choose to join KANU, do so because you believe in the ideals that the party propagates. If you leave it, do so because you do not stand for those ideals. We have stopped party-hopping. It is indiscipline when people come to a party and the following day they are in a different party. We must stay in a party throughout the duration of our terms. Some of our colleagues are mourning. This is the best decision we have made as a House. The people who will run against me in Homa Bay Town know that I am in the Orange Democratic 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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