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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I will not challenge my colleague on the roaming. The matter that you are being told to address yourself to, parliamentary precedent has that you must quote the relevant laws, Standing Orders and regulations that give a Member of Parliament the right to get security. If you allow me, in the 10th Parliament which I served in with great minds such as Hon. Olago Aluoch, the then Member of Parliament for Embakasi, Hon. David Were - may his soul rest in peace - was killed. One week later, the Member of Parliament for Ainamoi in Kericho was killed by a police officer in Eldoret over a family issue. The then Speaker, Hon. Kenneth Marende, wrote to the then Commissioner of Police and asked in his wisdom that because of the circumstances, Members of Parliament should be given security. That is the only thing I can find. There is no provision in the Constitution, any relevant law, the Standing Orders and in the regulations that govern the National Police Service Commission. You are being asked to rule or give direction on a matter that has no basis in law. Because today is our first day, Hon. Junet is used to the fake swearing-in and the statements they make at funerals and he has now forgotten that this afternoon he has entered the august House. The House must be run according to the Standing Orders, the Constitution or precedents, practices and communications given by former Speakers or practices in other jurisdictions similar to ours. Before he moves to ask you to rule on something, I challenge him as the Leader of the Majority Party not to take the House in circles. Tell us which law, Standing Orders and regulations stipulate the same. If you do not have any, we have important business to deal with. He should shut up and sit down."
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