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    "id": 716828,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Chairperson, Sir, this again is a terrible indictment of this House. One can understand the House where the process was engulfed with fist fights and all manner of quarrels. This is a House of scrutiny, revision and record. When our children in future will read that we sat in this House and passed a law that purported to amend a Section of the law that has been repealed, what will people think of us? What Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., has brought is just simple and sensible. This House itself passed a law that separated election offences from other election issues. So, now we have an Election Offences Act and that is why Section 56 of that Act was repealed. I want to urge this House to salvage our image. Bulldoze what you want but please do not drag our image into the mud. That we sit here until 11.00 p.m., to approve an amendment of a law that we repealed. What will people think of this House? For posterity, let us be bipartisan on such matters and salvage the image of this House. When it will be taken to the President to assent to a Bill amending a repealed Section of the law, what will the President think of you who have been bending backwards to vote to please?"
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