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    "id": 850582,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "South Mugirango, KNC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Silvanus Onyiego",
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        "legal_name": "Silvanus Osoro Onyiego",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I wanted to speak earlier on because my name was being used as an example of the Members of Parliament who happen to be in this House courtesy of the purported small parties. At the outset, I support the Report because in my view this is a step towards the right direction, however we are not yet there. What Hon. Members call ‘bigger political parties’, in my view, are not. I wish we could be honest to ourselves. Political parties in this country are personal properties. Some of the political parties that people call ‘briefcase parties’’ happen to be much bigger that the purported bigger parties. We have personalised our political parties such that if the party leader decides to fold that briefcase, there will be no party. I will give an example. Hon. Duale used my name, and I need to remind him that he was in a political party where the party leader decided to fold his briefcase. That was the briefcase party called the United Republican Party (URP). The party leader decided to fold the briefcase and opened another briefcase with His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta. Most of the Members here are following that brief case party."
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