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    "id": 833147,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "By wearing a white ribbon, you are separating yourself from the rest of the Members. All of us should wear a white ribbon on the day that Bill is discussed. Do not discriminate. Right now, somebody will ask why are there are few Members. The other thing people must learn is that for you to survive with a constitutional amendment Bill, you must speak to the majority and the minority leadership. We are not here by default. We are here to represent political parties. The work of political parties is to legislate. As a leader, Hon. Wamalwa never came to my office. He never engaged me. He thought he can pass this Bill with his 11 Members of Parliament. Hon. Olago Aluoch is agitated. Hon. Speaker, even from the numbers you have read, there are a number of us who were ready to vote “No”. In the 11th Parliament, Hon. Ochieng brought a similar Bill, but that time we were a transitional Parliament. We were losing certain months. We came into office in March 2013 and were told that we were exiting in August 2017. Now we are no longer a transitional Parliament. We were elected in August and we will go home in August. Some of us, including Hon. Kaluma, I and many others were not convinced. So, Hon. Wamalwa, among the 187 Members, you need to count how many were “Noes” and then you will know your share. The 187 is not yours. There are a number of us who were ready to say “No”. You have tried. It is good. I am not intimidating anybody, but other Members can try. Let us lobby more. Hon. Wamalwa did not seize the chance. He should have used the Standing Orders to ask for another opportunity within the next four sittings. I expected him to rise on a point of order and use the Standing Orders to request that the Question be deferred to next week. I thank him. He has engaged the House. You have helped Members to see that it is not about singing and being a choirmaster. It is about voting electronically or physically."
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