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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": " Hon. Speaker, let me also support this Motion. I think as Hon. Members, we need to learn the tricks of debate. When it comes to the President’s Speech, it is practically impossible to speak on each item that the President presents. It is important that you pick on a specific issue. If it is national values, then pick, emphasise and talk about it in a manner that exhausts it. Another Member should pick the steps taken in meeting international obligations and also expound on it, while the other picks on something on matters of national security. You will realise that five minutes is not a short period of time to deliver what you want to deliver. However, the problem is when you want to speak on every aspect of the President’s Speech. Then five minutes, 20 or even 30 minutes would not be sufficient. However, to my friend Hon. T.J. Kajwang’, really, you know the Leader of the Majority Party is supposed to spell out on behalf of the majority on matters that have been addressed by the President - mostly, issues supportive of the President’s Speech. When it comes to the Leader of the Minority Party, I know our circumstances are a bit different now but practically, the Leader of the Minority Party is supposed to critique. Ideally, 20 minutes would not be sufficient for the Leader of the Minority Party to speak on behalf of the Minority Party. Hon. Speaker, rarely would you find… That is why the leadership of the Minority and Majority is given to some senior people in those political parties as well."
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