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    "id": 994485,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/994485/?format=api",
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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": "In my opinion, we need guidance. We need a communication that will be used by future Parliaments if we shall still live in this presidential system. Why am I saying so? The function of a Member of Parliament in the Constitution is to legislate, oversight and represent. So, outside our parties, he must perform those duties. If we go back to history, this kind of a matter arose in the 10th Parliament, but now we are under a new dispensation. I am sure it is not only affecting Hon. Ochieng’. We have been very good to him. In fact, when he won, we sat with the Minority Party leadership and agreed that the only seat available was that of our brother Christopher Karan. Hon. Ochieng’ wanted to go to the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs and we told him he had no space there. This is the season for contact chasing, quarantine, isolation and social distancing. What the weather man is predicting politically is not favourable. I think as the Speaker makes communication - because he is not a Member of any political party - Hon. Ochieng’ will need somewhere to sit and that is why we are leaders. You are a vibrant Member and you need to represent your people. Hon. Speaker, in the communication you are going to give, whatever you come up with is going to set a precedent for future Parliaments. Therefore, it is a very weighty matter even constitutionally looking at the rights of a Member of Parliament in terms of his voters and political party, what a parliamentary party is and whether we have the numbers."
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