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    "id": 997247,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/997247/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "North Horr, FAP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Chachu Ganya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 18,
        "legal_name": "Francis Chachu Ganya",
        "slug": "francis-ganya"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Thank you so much for your landmark ruling. This ruling will guide future parliaments. We are guided by our Constitution. Standing Orders, as good as they may be in enabling us to conduct business in this House, are not superior to the Constitution. Your ruling is well anchored in the spirit and letter of the Constitution. For that, I really appreciate it. I take offence when my colleague and age mate in this Parliament, Hon. John Mbadi – and we came here in the same Parliament - calls our small parties “briefcase” parties. I was actually a member of ODM for 10 years. I left ODM and was able to get elected on a party of my choice in North Horr Constituency. Unlike me, if he dares to leave ODM, he will not even be the chairman of a cattle dip in Suba where he comes from. It is Kenyans who decide how we get to this House. The small parties are part and parcel of the architecture of the political arrangement in this country. Same to Independents. We are ranking Members of this House. I am not the only one; there are other senior Members who belong to small parties. I beg him, as a leader in this House, to respect small parties. I thank you."
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