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    "id": 874630,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "I am not sure whether this uniform is parliamentary dress. I do not want to talk about Hon. Otiende Amollo because that has been his dress, only that he has forgotten that there is a specific dress code for Parliament. When you look at Hon. Otiende Amollo, you will keep quiet. In fact, there is total confusion between him and the Clerks-at-the-Table. Sometimes you wonder whether that is KANU or service uniform. Just like the way we are cautious about the formation of caucuses, Hon. Millie Odhiambo was telling me last week that there are people who are looking for people to attend a conference on gays and lesbians and they were unable to get one. If you do not stop that, next time they will form a caucus here of gays and lesbians. They will even form caucuses of criminal gangs. Secondly, in the last part of 11th Parliament and in the 12th Parliament, people have been coming here with all sorts of dresses. The Deputy Speaker does not want to say that the Member was wearing very tight jeans. We were in a meeting and I said to her that I hoped she would not come to the Chamber the way she was dressed. Being a very intelligent Member, she took off. There are many. To the lady Members of Parliament here, the way you dress is not the way other people dress. You will not find male Members of Parliament coming here dressed in jeans trousers and jackets. We must protect the integrity of the House. We must follow the dress code. Hon. Speaker, we want to follow that to the letter. Those of you who watch the proceedings of the House of Commons appreciate that we borrowed from the House of Commons, Westminster model. People are smartly dressed, but if you want us to go the route of South Africa, where Malema goes to parliament dressed in aprons and helmets, then we can agree that everybody comes the way he wants. I want to thank Hon. Olago Aluoch. Those of us who served in the 10th Parliament have been watching. Even if we are many, we can still maintain the dignity and decorum in term of how we dress. So, Hon. Otiende Amollo is out of order and you must send him out to send a signal. I am wondering whether he is bringing his church dress to the House. He belongs to one of the smallest churches because I have not heard about it. It must be one of the small sects with less than 500 followers. If it was Catholic, yes, but a small village sect mode of dressing cannot be brought to this august House. I beg you to give direction that even Hon. Sankok leaves his green uniform outside. He should be coming into this House dressed in a suit, so that he uses that brand outside. He cannot purport to sell this. Hon. Sankok, Member No. 001 from my party, has a dress of individual brand. Parliament has a brand that we should wear. We should not import our own brands. A good example is the Member for Embakasi East, Hon. Theuri. He loves wearing jeans trousers - the kinds of jeans trousers won in Eastlands - but he has his suit in his office. He wears the suit and when he gets out of the Chamber, he wears his designer clothes. The same should apply to Hon. Sankok. These are your designer clothes. Please, leave them outside and wear suits. If you cannot buy suits, we will do a fundraiser."
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