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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, we are not going to challenge your Communication this afternoon. It is a landmark Communication and one that has completely, in my opinion as the Chairman of the Committee on Selection, will make me go home tonight and ponder on Standing Order Nos.173 to 174. We thought that we were moving towards the direction of developed democracies like the USA and the UK, where we would have two major political parties. But from your Communication this afternoon, I have realized that Independents are not “independent” but have rights, which is true and is based on the Constitution. When I became the Chair of the Committee on Selection, there are people who coalesced around us and today, for the first time, you have given a formula the Committee on Selection will use. The only question is how the formula will work. You have told us the Jubilee Party and our affiliates are those who have signed pre and post-election agreements and increased our numbers. Hon. Speaker, it is very good you have said it. The two Members from Chama cha Mashinani were my Members. After signing a coalition agreement with National Super Alliance (NASA), they wrote a letter to Parliament through Hon. Isaac Ruto that they could then work with the Jubilee Party. So, right now, I will distribute those two Members back to NASA because the numbers you have given me do not belong to me. So, in fact, I have two slots. You have given us, as a coalition, their numbers The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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