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    "id": 880320,
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    "type": "speech",
    "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": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, I also oppose. I want to make the following quick comments: One is that the amendment could have made sense if we come up with a procedure, executed at the assembly, of how the speaker is to be removed and under what grounds. The speaker needs to be given an opportunity to defend himself or herself before a committee of the assembly. Trying to make the threshold so high than the removal of the Speaker of the National Assembly is misplaced. Two, giving veto power to the Senate to veto the work of assembly, the same assembly that elected the speaker, is not good. Electing the Speaker is by simple majority. The moment you elect by simple majority, this person becomes a demigod so that you have to seek authority from the Senate for you to remove him. Surely, we should be keen even when we are bringing amendments. Some do not make sense. Let us not compare governors, as the Leader of the Majority Party said, because the governor is voted for by people in the county. So, you cannot do that. You have to allow such a person to enjoy some other veto power elsewhere, outside the assembly. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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