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    "id": 1002534,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "agree with him. It is only in few instances in the history of the House that we have a Motion of this magnitude. At the moment, Kenyans are tuned in from all over the country. In fact, I am told in Kirinyaga County, the social places that have been opened up to 7.30 p.m. and people are sitting in their homes waiting for this very important decision. They are not just waiting for the decision, but they want to hear whether our decision is based on serious deliberations in this House. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you look at the American Congress, the House of Commons or even the South African Parliament, Members are given adequate time to deliberate on issues. Today, we all know Hon. Julius Malema, MP and Leader of Economic Freedom Fighters because of the South African Parliament. He is not holding any position. He sits at backbench, but we know him because of the serious deliberations of their House. Please make a decision on this issue as raised by Sen. Omogeni so that you allow this House to ventilate on it. If Senators decide to have only three minutes to make their comments, it will be fine because we need to enjoy the 15 minutes provided for by the Standing Orders. We do not want to violate our own Standing Orders. If someone is unhappy with the 15 minutes, they should raise a Motion on it to amend. However, we cannot raise the Motion at this point in time because the Standing Order itself says so. Legally speaking, we have 15 minutes to make our serious deliberations. Those who are in a hurry and those who have their farms to tend to and all those other issues Sen. Kang’ata was talking about can excuse themselves. Those of us who are interested in sitting here even if it is up to midnight should be allowed to do so. I remember during the impeachment of Governor Wambora, we sat here upto 10.00 p.m. The few of us who want to make serious deliberations can have our time."
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