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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Duale from that Committee.” The letter would then go to the Speaker and that would be the end of you. The current Standing Orders provide that the leadership should not abuse their offices. There must be some due diligence and grounds for being removed from a Committee, stating the crime you have committed and whether you were given an opportunity to defend yourself. Previously, you would be removed because you were found in my office or you are a Jubilee MP and you are found in Hon. Mbadi’s office. You are then asked what you were doing in Hon. Mbadi’s office when you are in Jubilee Party. You could also have gone for a funeral in South Nyanza, Rift Valley or North-Eastern region because the deceased person happened to be your friend, and you would be told: “We saw you on TV. What were you doing there?” Then the following Tuesday you would have no Committee. That brought about the element that we must do due diligence. I am sure that even the leadership of this House during the 11th Parliament had good reasons. We have addressed this issue in the Standing Orders until it reaches a situation where the party or coalition sees that you are not helping them in their agenda in the House. Each one of us is a member of a political party or is affiliated to a political party – and believes in the aspirations of that party. We must, at all times, defend and protect our coalitions or parties. These are men and women who will help us. Those of us who are in the leadership of the House will on Friday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday be away to craft a list and make sure that we bring it to the House on Wednesday or Thursday next week. With those remarks, I beg to move and ask my neighbour in my Nairobi residence and my good friend, Leader of the Minority Party, to second the Motion."
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