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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Fortunately, a person is de-whipped for… They had reasons. If you know you are elected on a political party, you must abide by its rules and understand at all times the party’s position. That is why, if you can remember, Hon. Mbui, we struggled last term to include Standing Order No. 176(1) to give a Member an opportunity to be heard. Maybe, they may have been doing some few things without knowing. Maybe, when they appear before the committee on discipline… I could remind them of the famous KANU Disciplinary Committee that was chaired by the late Okiki Amayo, where people would kneel when they got into the room. But you know sometimes people are reminded that they belong to a political party. You can see, if people are given a chance, who are remorseful and who are jokers. Those who are remorseful can be pardoned, is it not? If you look at Article 92 of the Constitution, and the Political Parties Act, indeed, a party has got a right to discipline its members. In fact, in some jurisdictions that I know of, it is the political parties’ whips who even inform the Speaker which Member to be allowed to travel out of the country so that they maintain party discipline and loyalty. I am not suggesting anything right now but I know of highly developed democracies that have that kind of arrangement."
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