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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Shiyonga",
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        "legal_name": "Masitsa Naomi Shiyonga",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, thank you. Thank you for those who are already wishing me to be the Kakamega County Woman Senator. I will be and may the words come true. I thank you for this opportunity to contribute to the Communication. I take this opportunity to thank our Speaker, Hon. Kenneth Lusaka, for the walk they did led by the legal team and other Members that day. History has been written. Madam Deputy Speaker, this House has been humiliated by the “Lower House”. I always call it the “Lower House” because even in the construction itself, it is lower. It is on the lower part of this compound. Where people think that justice cannot be given, that day they were proved wrong. Let us not engage in sibling rivalry when it comes to constitutional matters. You might not be a pastor; it is not a must that you should be a reverend; you might not be even a Member of Parliament. However, when God is on your side, you can make the rightful judgment. That day, the Senate was proved right. The National Assembly with the sibling rivalry they can think about was proved wrong. Madam Deputy Speaker, I want to state that there was nothing that we had been doing wrong. We had been putting our Bills right. We had been debating in this House. We had been sitting in this House. We are paid because we are here to make laws, only to find that our brothers and sisters down there looking at us like we are doing nothing. One day when they sit where we are, they will know very well that the shoe wearer knows where it pinches most. The continuous violation of the constitutional rulings that are done by our “Lower House” and the confusion they cause our President, to assent on laws that have not been agreed as Parliament, is very humiliating and wrong. They forget to know that justice that is done through a rightful process is justice that is delivered to somebody who is yearning to get the rightful answer. Madam Deputy Speaker, there is nothing that can make you happier than a judgement that has been ruled in favour of somebody who has been humiliated the way we have been humiliated. One day the Members who are sitting there, if they will come to this House, let them know that this House started by being the “Upper House”. Other countries respect the Senate, but our brothers and sisters down there think they are the people to speak for us. We are not here to be spoken for. We are here to make constitutional laws. We are here to talk for ourselves, represent and protect our counties. That is exactly what we did. However, they think we came here to do sibling rivalry. We are beyond that. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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