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    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I also thank you for allowing me to contribute to this Motion that has been presented to this House by the Committee on Powers and Privileges. Let me start by saying that I agree with the Committee that the conduct of our friends, the two Hon. Members, was demeaning to Parliament. This happened early this year. These Hon. Members were barely four or five months in Parliament. I know that during that time, there was quite some tension in the country. The political environment was tense after the elections of last year. That leads me to what we always say that there is nothing as valuable as experience. Some of us also came to this Parliament quite young, probably not as young as Babu Owino or Hon. Kanyi, but we were also young. I will tell you that if Hon. Paul Ongili and Hon. Kanyi were here with us from 2008, they, probably, would have realised that there was no need to exercise their physical strength. This is because the tension that was this in country in January 2008, if Babu Owino and Jaguar were in this House, probably people would have lost their teeth. However, people were sober enough. Some of us have been around to see that this political tension will always be there, but it does not have to necessarily result into physical fist fights. I am sure my colleagues in the 13th Parliament will be the ones advising the young Members who will come to go slow. I am happy they came before the Committee and accepted. They did not fight the fact that they made a mistake. They came and apologised. Once you apologise, it is African that you have to be forgiven. I urge this country - not even this House because this happened within the precincts of Parliament, but outside the Chamber - to forgive our two very vibrant and eloquent legislators. The two Members add a lot of value to this House. That leads me to two critical issues. I want to raise the issue of impartiality. When those two honourable Members fought outside the Chamber, that matter was referred to the Powers and Privileges Committee and was acted on. But when my sister, Hon. Millie Odhiambo, was beaten and even stripped naked - which is not part of the culture of the Suba tradition - that matter has not been addressed to date. The matter has not been taken to the Powers and Privileges Committee yet the Member for Gatundu South, Moses Kuria, assaulted my sister. I do not know whether…"
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