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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Thank you Mr. Speaker, Sir, for that communication. I have the following to say. In terms of this Senate, there is no party called Orange Democratic Movement (ODM). This House has only NASA coalition, Jubilee Party, the Kenya African National Union (KANU) Party, Chama Cha Mashinani (CCM) and one Independent Member. Those are the entities in this House. The communication that elected yours truly, Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., Senator for Makueni, Petronila Were, nominated Senator of Amani National Congress (ANC) Party and Sen. James Orengo of ODM came from the Parliamentary Group Meeting (PG) of NASA. A PG of NASA is not a PG of ODM and a PG of ODM is not a PG of NASA. NASA is a coalition and nobody was invited to join it; we formed it. I want to tell my colleagues – because Mr. Speaker Sir, I have heard this communication from the Chair after being informed an hour before the start of the House proceedings that mischief has been going on behind my back. I want to say that if anybody wants a divorce, it will be messy and noisy and it will not be easy. For avoidance of any confusion, I want to tell my colleagues in ODM that for the last two presidential elections, we have supported a candidate fronted by ODM and that is the reason they are more in both Houses of Parliament than their partner parties. If Kalonzo Musyoka was to be the presidential candidate, probably Wiper Democratic Movement party would be having the majority because of the advantages that go with being a candidate. The same would have happened if the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy - Kenya (FORD-Kenya) and ANC had provided a candidate. So, I want to tell my colleagues to try to go to NASA, bring the constituent four parties together and see if they will extract a resolution to bring to this House because NASA has ODM, WIPER, ANC and FORD Kenya. The leaders of these parties; Raila Amolo Odinga, Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka, Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi and Moses Masika Wetangula are an integral part of all the organs of this party and whenever we hold even PGs, the party leadership attends. I know that since we started this House, a conspiratorial process has been going on with nocturnal meetings taking place. The very least my colleagues could have done is to have called me into a meeting and told me: “As our leader, the following are issues that we have against you and we want to change”; not to go and seat in the comfort of a five- The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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