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    "id": 749548,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. It cannot escape my attention that I should contribute on these issues; on the subject that has been brought about by the Leader of the Majority Party. You know it is a sad and stupid moment, quite frankly, that the names we are seeing are the names we are having problems with in our political parties. So, how do you bring them here after the mess which I have been subjected to in the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM). The name of the messer is there and ring-fenced. I do not have an opportunity to vote against her. This is not the first time we are electing members to the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA). Remember, in the 10th Parliament, there was a court case. The court case said we cannot just choose. The court case said we elect. I was the Chief Whip in the last Parliament that crafted a voting formula – how we send Kenyans there. The parties are mere conduits on how their names get here. They come here and canvass amongst Members of Parliament (MPs). Members may also have their interest. But, Hon. Speaker, if you allow somebody to sit somewhere outside, in a hotel or bar, and send a name here and ask the National Assembly of Kenya or the Senate to rubberstamp, you would have killed democracy. You would have killed democracy. It cannot work. Some of these people, some of their actions, it is an opportunity for us to ventilate. It is an opportunity when we talk about these people because if you are a person who can commit some of us to what we have gone through, you do not pick our calls or we do not know where to find you, you do not pass the integrity test to represent my country or continue representing it, whether it is in EALA or this National Assembly."
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