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    "id": 835552,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I do not want to be informed. If you are not a parliamentary party and you coalesce around another parliamentary party, you must have the discipline and decency to live with that party. You must also appreciate that, that parliamentary party has gone out of its way to accommodate you. If somebody accommodates you in his House, you cannot choose where to sleep. You cannot tell ODM as a parliamentary party that you want to sleep on Baba’s bed. I request you, Hon. Speaker to protect the legislature. When I was served with that letter, I asked whether parliamentary leadership can be injuncted by the political parties’ tribunal. What about tomorrow when the tribunal will say you cannot discuss legislation such as the Budget? Very soon, we are going to amend the Political Parties Act. We have the powers. We will deal with the men and women who run the Political Parties Tribunal by amending the Political Parties Act. I want to inform Hon. Members that there is nothing. It happened in the 10th and 11th Parliament. We will reconsider and harmonise so that all committees are the same. You must tell us why you want to stick in PIC. What is in PIC? We must know. We must know what happens in PIC. There are people who want to kill us. It is like you have filed a petition against them in court. Hon. Sharif Nassir must tell us what is in Public Accounts Committee. Hon. Speaker, the Powers and Privilege Committee that you chair must do a lifestyle audit on people who insist that they must be in a particular party. I am not a Member of any committee and I have no problem. The Leader of the Minority Party is only in the Budget and Appropriations Committee. So, let us not make our lives difficult. In fact, let me say it here and go on record: We will ask the Director of Committees to submit to our whips and the leadership the attendance register of members in committees. If you do not attend committee meetings more than four times, we will have a very good reason to remove you from that committee. That is what we should do. Hon. Speaker, you were consulting with a Member. We have a problem and we must say it on record. We have a problem touching on members in PIC and PAC, but we shall do our own due diligence. There are people who are saying that this list came because of the Finance Bill. The Committee on Selection dealt with this matter on 30th August 2018. If it was about de- whipping, the first victim should have been the choir master, the Member for Ruaraka. This matter was dealt with by the Selection Committee before the Finance Bill. We are good leaders. Even if you misbehave and go against the party line, we will not de-whip you; we are colleagues. In fact, Hon. Kaluma will now be a member of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security despite being a gubernatorial contestant with Hon. Mbadi. He has to face him. In the opinion polls in Homa Bay, Hon. Kaluma has been trailing, but since he went to court to represent the good family of the late Sharon, his opinion poll numbers have come up. He is now doing about 15 per cent. So, Hon. Speaker, please, protect Parliament from those who want to serve us with letters and summons from the Political Parties Tribunal. The legislature is independent. I beg to move and ask the Leader of the Minority Party to second, so that the new Members—Hon. Nyenze, Hon. Aisha, Hon. Kamuren, Hon. Gideon Konchela and Hon. Kajwang’—can join and be active in the various committees we have placed them."
}