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Trouble looms for those who quit sponsoring outfits

Elizabeth Ongoro - Left ODM

At least 20 MPs are staring at job losses following their defection from parties that sponsored them to Parliament. The MPs defected to vie as independent candidates or to join parties popular in their constituencies.

Now experts familiar with law and parliamentary practice say individual political parties or any MP can ask the Speaker to kick the MPs out on strength of their resignation letters.

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