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    "id": 745059,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/745059/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wandayi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "I did not say that. You did not understand me well. He was not listening. Having said what I said, I still maintain that we should allow the minority side, which next time round I am sure will be composed of that other side, to chair those committees. So, I am really helping them. It should be given the leeway to nominate people to chair those key committees rather than subject it to a normal election which will result in a majority ganging up to elect for the minority people to chair those committees, as it has happened in the term of this Parliament. In conclusion, I do not agree with the proposal to have the so-called independent Members chairing this new Committee that will oversee the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) and what have you. If we continue to legitimise or institutionalise this issue of independents, we shall, in effect, be killing multi-party democracy in this country. In our Constitution, Kenya is a multi-party democracy. We cannot use the backdoor to introduce some foreign terminologies which are alien to the Constitution. You cannot institutionalise the issue of independents in this House and yet, you continue to appropriate monies to support political parties. It is not right. In any case---"
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