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    "id": 771070,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. T.J. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, it is interesting how this debate has been going on. First of all, you noticed that you do not have a Motion that has been presented before you and which has been proposed by which Members can now debate. However, there are interesting issues of law which I think if not discussed properly will lead Members to think that there is something happening here that is unusual. Hon. Speaker, you remember that you gave a ruling and this House is a House of rules governed by traditions and precedents. You gave a ruling in this House in the 11th Parliament concerning my very good friend, Hon. Mwashetani. In that ruling, you remember Hon. Mwashetani was a Member of FORD-Kenya and was de-whipped by the coalition that he belonged to. And you said in several but very good words that Hon. Mwashetani being a Member of FORD-Kenya and not being a Member of parliamentary party was therefore exercising his mandate at the behest of the coalition that formed the minority party. I think that is a decision which is in the annals. If my friends would care to check, you would find it very consistent with what has happened today. This is because Hon. Momanyi has read the law quite clearly. Article 127(c)(ii) talks about “by the parties not forming the government.” It means that as the Leader of the Minority Party has said, the parties not forming government will give names according to our parties’ arrangement. In fact, to put it crudely, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) can donate to whichever party that is not forming the Government at its own discretion. It has nothing to do with the coalition arrangement. This also has nothing with coalition dispute. There is no coalition dispute here. This is about reading the law and then exercising that law according to the mathematical arrangements that works within that political party. So, let us not create fodder for Jubilee that this afternoon they are very happy and very awake enjoying how many issues are coming from NASA. This is just a matter which we can go back to the law and the ruling of this House and we will find that it is properly done within the law. I request that we stop this debate and wait for that Motion to come. All of us will table that ruling here, discuss it and the Jubilee Coalition will find that even though this morning the Leader of the Majority Party wants us to believe that he is a very generous man who allows everybody to exercise his discretion... The word “guillotine” was used this morning in a meeting in which the President chaired. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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