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    "id": 1019819,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "I have heard colleagues say that because people are doing rallies and people are going for reggae concerts, we should also do the same. It is not right that we do the wrongs that others are doing because they are doing it. More fundamentally, you and the leadership need to assure this House that if we are going to sit for three days in a week, that we are going to have an element of virtual sittings in those three days. We have been in this Parliament from the last one and this one. There was a time when there was a lot of pressure when I was chairing the County Public Accounts and Investments Committee (CPAIC) that I should bring reports to this House for consideration of the House. When we brought 60 reports, it was only Sen. Olekina, Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri, Members of the County Public Accounts and Investments Committee (CPAIC) and I, who were here to discuss those reports. The debate on revenue does not need 10 sittings; it just requires goodwill. To argue that we need more sittings to pass the Revenue Formula is like arguing that you need nine men to achieve conception. Mr. Speaker, Sir, please assure us that we shall be sitting virtually. That way, I can go to Homa Bay, talk to fishermen and at the appointed time, I can log in. I can assure you that this House will be more productive the way we have been more productive in Committees where we have allowed virtual sittings. I support, but please allow hybrid sittings to be the norm rather than the exception because the last time I asked, I was told that it is the Senate Business Committee (SBC) to determine which one should be hybrid or not. If we had virtual sittings where people can vote virtually, our friends like Sen. Malalah, who like sitting in the boots of Subaru vehicles, can vote from the boot of a Subaru. He does not have to be in this House. I support."
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