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    "speaker_name": "Nyando, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jared Okelo",
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    "content": "consider your judgment today and he were asked to write a different opinion, he would as well be very convincing. I remember the President of this country was last weekend caught in a very tight situation of continuing to lockdown the country. And he said it was not a matter of what is right and what is wrong, but both which are right. I think you have tried to juggle between those two fundamentals. We are fortunate that you come from a history of developing very serious political movements. When you were in KANU as a very senior member, KANU members were strewn all over this House, until you left. Therefore, you understand how difficult it is to put beef into a political movement, particularly a political party. It is a travesty that people would put a lot of their time and resources developing political parties in order to come here and enjoy the benefits. Some of my colleagues in this House, with due respect to them, have what we call fringe parties. They have briefcase parties, with one person representing a political party in this House and yet, the Constitution is very clear on what must be met for one to register a political party with the Registrar of Political Parties. You wonder where all those offices evaporate to. My brother here, Hon. Junet, calls them Non-Governmental Organisations. But of fundamental concern to me is that when committees are being constituted in this House, and you have Independents and those with fringe parties, it behooves both the Majority and Minority parties to give them slots. And your ruling is an eye-opener, so that no Majority or Minority party will ever take the risk to give them any position. They look down upon the parties that have been very charitable to them and they never listen to us. I am a very senior member of ODM. In fact, I sit on the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party. These people to whom we donate positions very generously in this House never understand our manifesto. We do not even understand their manifesto. Of course, we are not interested in understanding manifestos of fringe parties. But there must be a point where discipline must be instituted. As we will retreat as a House to in-depth look at how these positions will be shared going forward, let us put a lot of emphasis on bigger parties benefitting the more and fringe parties being pushed to the back burner, so that they can understand that it is important to go across this country to market your party so that you can also bring numbers here for negotiation. Lastly, if you allow me, the Constitution talks about national representation in political parties. If a party is boxed into a small constituency like Ugenya, it does not serve national representation. Therefore, let us also encourage parties to market and have many people and to propagate nationalism as opposed to individualism in Ugenya. I thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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