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    "id": 748706,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kipyegon",
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        "legal_name": "Johana Ngeno Kipyegon",
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    "content": "There are briefcase parties which have not seen themselves in the list. I would not have wished that this House or people who formulated these rules to extend the impunity that we have in Parliament of tyranny of numbers to EALA. EALA should have been a completely different situation altogether, so that we do not have the same mess we normally have in this House extending itself to EALA. EALA is a Parliament formulated by countries that subscribe to the East African Community (EAC). The issues these people are going to discuss there, and I remember when we were debating on this matter sometimes back, we had made a plea that we are expecting names of people with serious expertise on particular issues that have been discussed in that Parliament. I can only see names and we are going by it. We are not going to complain. Some people were complaining that so and so has brought his wife. Others are complaining that he has brought his girlfriend. Others are complaining that he has brought his son. There is something that we have learnt in this country and we only hope that in future, we are going to change the rules so that whichever names we bring here are names of candidates who we believe to the best of our knowledge, are going to present the country like those other countries represent their candidates. I have no problems with people presenting their sisters or other people because it is a situation we have had in this country. I heard people complaining that Kalonzo Musyoka has brought his son. I have never heard them complaining to Mheshimiwa Uhuru Kenyatta who is the President of this country for having his sister nominated as a Senator in the other House. I have never heard people complaining to Mheshimiwa Raila Odinga for nominating his brother to this House. I have never heard anybody complaining to Duale, the Leader of the Majority Party for nominating his cousin to be a member of the county assembly (MCA) or the Deputy President for nominating his daughter to some positions. This is a culture. We just have to learn to live with it. Some of us who do not have serious positions and connections will just have to learn to live with it. Do not clean your dirty linen in this House by saying so and so is proposing so and so. Remove the log in your eye before removing the spec in your brother’s eye. 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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