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    "id": 771053,
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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": "Yes I have calculated, you know I am very good in mathematics unlike my colleague, the Leader of the Majority Party who went to Egerton and studied something else. I actually studied issues of calculation at the University of Nairobi. At least I have the privilege of knowing numbers. I will tell you for a fact that if you work with that calculation and you get 76 Members of ODM over 99 with two parties, you will get 1.6. So, ODM will take the two slots. You go to the Senate; ODM will take the other slot. So, it is in the interest of the coalition to debate this matter as a coalition issue holistically, without going to constituent parties. If we go that direction, the result may not be pleasant, because I want to have this coalition cohesive, solid and one. So, in the matter of PSC - I want to ask Hon. Angwenyi to hold his horses because he seems not to be aware of what we are debating - ODM has not taken everything. Of those three names, one is from ANC; only two are from ODM. The issue I am raising is, if Hon. Momanyi has issues, this is a matter he can bring back to the coalition through the right channel. It is not a question of I want my name there and it has to be there. These are just three slots, and we have 134 Members, all qualified to sit in the PSC. I just want to urge for caution that this is not a matter that should be made a subject of debate in the House. We have our organs as a coalition. We have the summit which actually made this decision. Before I wrote the letter recommending the three names, I had to consult with my counterpart in the Senate, Hon. Wetangula, who agreed with this position. I was communicated to from the summit. So I really do not understand why we are grandstanding here. This is a matter that can be allowed to rest and we go and sort it out as NASA coalition. Hon. Momanyi should have also expressed his personal interest. The Standing Orders require that when you are discussing a matter where you have personal interest... By the way he is right; he is a very senior member, a well-known lawyer in this country, who qualifies to sit in the PSC. But he should have disclosed and declared his interest that he wants to sit there and that, as he has told me, he has been short-changed. I want to clarify to him that he has not been short- changed; he has not been considered. He can still be considered and so this is our matter as a coalition. Otherwise, thank you very much. I hope I have now explained some of the issues that could have disturbed some Members. I know my colleagues on the other side would be very happy to see…. That is why Hon. Angwenyi is not sympathetic to Hon. Momanyi."
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