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    "id": 772804,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nuh",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Junet Sheikh Nuh",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, the kind of treatment that Members of Parliament from the National Super Alliance (NASA) Coalition are facing is different from what the Members of the Jubilee Party (JP) are facing. We believe that we are in one House and we all came to represent this country. Someone is telling me that we have our own “President”. If I am allowed to get bodyguards for my “President”, I know I will. If that is the way people want us to go - the way that the Leader of the Majority is suggesting - then I will get very serious bodyguards who will protect me day and night. But I thought that I belonged to a House which is governed by the Constitution and the Standing Orders. This Parliament has come from far. Hon. Speaker, you served as a Whip of this Parliament during the KANU era when Parliament was micromanaged by the Executive. Are we going back to that era where we have to report and line up at the Office of the President to earn allowances and remunerations? This is an independent arm of Government and it was in the wisdom of the constitutional framers that they provided a service commission for this Parliament, which you chair. We have the duty to uphold and protect the Constitution that we swore to protect. That protection comes by respecting the provisions of the same Constitution which has created minority and majority parties. Hon. Duale, as the Leader of the Majority Party, roams around in town with four cars which belong to this Parliament and the Leader of the Minority Party of this Parliament is on foot. The sirens which make a lot of noise near Parliament belong to Hon. Duale."
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