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    "id": 771048,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, can you protect me from the Majority Leader and his Deputy. You know how loud the Deputy is. It is very clear in the coalition agreement that commissions are not to be shared. There is no power sharing. I wanted to start from there. Secondly, I want to put it very clearly that I made communication to Hon. Speaker’s Office on the issue of PSC, and I did so based on powers that I have in the Standing Orders and the Constitution as the Leader of the Minority Party. I wrote two letters to you. There was the first letter and then I wrote another letter the following day overriding the first letter. Before the letters were written, I want to clarify that there were consultations. It is not an individual’s decision. I just want to remind my colleague that at times there are organs of the party where you do not belong. One of the organs is the summit. This is a decision that the summit had to discuss. Unfortunately, Hon. Momanyi does not sit in the summit. So, he may not be privy to discussions that went there. Hon. Speaker, I want to put it clearly that if there are concerns, we have our own internal mechanisms of resolving our disputes. I have a letter from Wiper written to me on the same topic forwarding the name of Ben Momanyi. Unfortunately, the summit did not recommend him. The person who wrote the letter is not mandated at all to direct me on what to do. So, I have already answered to that letter. But I want to take it further that this is a matter that can still be discussed within the coalition. We have our internal mechanism but the direction Hon. Momanyi is taking may not help his cause and I will tell him how. We have two slots in the National Assembly and one slot in the Senate. If you look at that list, it has two Members of ODM and one Member of ANC. I get to understand that Hon. Momanyi wants the slot that went to ANC to go to Wiper."
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