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    "id": 877302,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, as Hon. Sabina said, I can now say I am a seasoned Member of this House having served in the last Parliament and now serving in this House as the only unopposed Member of Parliament in the last elections. I am alive to the provisions of Standing Order No.91 on responsibility of statement of facts. I cannot be frivolous. I cannot state anything that is not a matter of fact and Hon. Junet knows that. I said that we should not use the Floor of this House to advance our business interests. I challenged the Member for Mathioya, who is here, to state his interests. It is important for Members to understand the genesis of my point of order. It portrays negatively on us as a House and as Members, when we are perceived to be using the Floor of this House to advance our business interests. It is instructive that the Member for Mathioya has in a way confirmed that he is advancing the interests of over 200 brokerage firms in this country. He has not in any way challenged me. I have been challenged and I asked the Member for Mathioya to state for everybody to hear whether he has any interests in any insurance brokerage company in this country. I want to state, as a statement of fact, that in the documents I will table here, the Member for Mathioya holds shares and is a director of Utmost Insurance Brokers. The Member for Mathioya is in this House. The challenge I put to him was so simple. In your other life as a magistrate, Hon. Speaker, you always ruled that there were lawyers who abused the court process. In the same parlance, as Members, we might be abusing our legislative processes in this House. Therefore, the Standing Orders state that before you speak on a matter, you must declare interest. Even before you table a legislative proposal, as the Leader of the Majority Party said, you must declare interest, particularly pecuniary and proprietary interest. On this matter, I dare say that the Member for Mathioya has both a pecuniary and proprietary interest in insurance brokerage business in this country. He was obligated, as a matter of ethics and morality, to uphold the dignity of this House and not the dignity of the Member for Mathioya. I will table these documents which I got from Sheria House, that Peter Kimaru Kihara of P.O. Box 28269-00100 is a shareholder and director of Utmost Insurance Brokers. I will table the documents."
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