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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nuh",
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        "legal_name": "Junet Sheikh Nuh",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I wish to speak as a Member of the NASA Coalition and the Minority Whip. I do not want to speak as a Member of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM). I belong to ODM as a party, but to NASA as a coalition. The last time I checked, the coalition agreement is still in force and deposited at the Office of the Registrar of Political Parties. I take cognisance of the fact that our brothers in WDM have complaints about the names that have been presented in the House. The best way to address that matter is to go back to our coalition organs and not on the Floor of the House. We have our own mechanism of addressing disputes. We even had mechanisms of producing a presidential candidate in 2017, through the organs and the systems of the NASA Coalition. If you allow the Speaker to decide who takes which position in this House, then we will have a situation where every Member will appoint himself to certain commissions and positions. I have made a lot of arguments that I wanted you to listen to. If we engage the Speaker to micromanage how coalitions are managed, then we will lose the meaning of having political party tribunals and mechanisms within coalitions and parties that handle disputes. This is a dispute within a coalition. It is not an affair of Parliament. It is a dispute between WDM, ODM, Forum for Reforms and Democracy - Kenya (FORD-K) and the Amani National Congress (ANC). If we produced a presidential candidate in 2017, this is a small matter. I request that you leave this matter to the leadership of NASA within and outside Parliament to sit down with its Members. If you allow everybody to appoint himself to a position, tomorrow, people will stand up and tell you that they are the Leader of the Minority Party. The last speaker who is from WDM did not even tell the House what criteria or methodology he used to come up with the sharing of positions. He is just saying that the WDM has one position and ODM has this number of positions. Just now, barely 10 minutes ago, we passed names of Committee Members approved by this House, who have been placed in Committees by the leadership of this House. Members of WDM, ANC, FORD-K and ODM did not dispute it. It is very absurd and ironical for Hon. Muturi Kigano to speak on behalf of the NASA Coalition when he knows that he cannot win a seat as a Member of the County Assembly (MCA) even in Murang’a with a NASA Coalition ticket. He should stick to his Jubilee lane. He is here courtesy of Jubilee. This is not a court of law. This is Parliament. It has its own rules, procedures and traditions that we follow in the Standing Orders. Lastly, without belabouring the matter, you made a ruling when the issue of leadership of the House was raised by Hon. Ayub Savula. You referred us back to our coalition and the Political Parties Dispute Tribunal. Somebody can even go to the High Court. If you are aggrieved, there are other avenues that can address your grievances and not necessarily on the Floor of the House. This matter is engineered by none other than the Leader of the Majority Party. He has a hand in this. I know it."
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