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    "id": 1019867,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. speaker, Sir. While we appreciate what the Senate Majority Leader has said and the efforts of Sen. Omogeni, the question that we have - because in this process you were sent by the Senate - was when were you going to come back to us and explain what is going on? If it was just the decision of a Judge, that is one thing, but a consent where parties are entering into and you are negotiating on our behalf, ideally, there would have been a Kamkunji, where you come and update us on where the matter has reached and the reasons for the decision we want to make. If it is being done tomorrow, and we are hearing about it from the grapevine, the social media or whoever it is, that is a bit unfair on the Senators who sent you. Sen. Omogeni and Sen. Orengo, we appreciate what you are doing, but you need to come back to us. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you say that we agree, yet just a week or two weeks ago, the National Assembly declared The Pandemic and Disaster Response Bill, which we worked on by considering more than 170 submissions--- In fact, in that Committee, the Deputy Director of the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) was sitting with us. He made us make sure it is not a Money Bill, and after all that work, Sen. Kasanga, who is now the Chair of the Committee on COVID-19 Situation Kenya, they just casually declared it a Money Bill. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this process is being mishandled and I think you need to come back to us before going to court. We cannot just meet in court. You need to come back to us because until you do so, no one representing the Senate has the authority to enter into consent until you come back to those who sent you."
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