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    "id": 1044689,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I have noticed your Communication. As you have captured, there was a meeting yesterday and we were invited. However, if my memory serves me right, not all Members of the Jubilee Coalition were in the meeting. Be that as it may, we request your office to put the minutes that are attached to the letter of the Senate Majority Leader. This is because in the past, a similar process had been followed on the Majority Side. In the case of Sen. Wetangula, you gave a detailed ruling with clear information. In the past case of the Majority Side, you said that you will give your ruling. We have been waiting for it patiently from May last year and it is now February, 2021. We still pray that you will make your ruling before August, 2022. We request your office to put the details at the Dispatch Box so that we can all access them. Sen. (Dr.) Kang’ata is not here but I congratulate him for serving as the Majority Whip in the Senate for less than a year. He came in under circumstances that many of us do not agree with. However, he has done his job on behalf of those who asked him to, with a lot of passion. He is now wiser and has realized that no matter how much he works for these people and particularly when doing the wrong thing, it will never lead to any reward. We had a lot of altercations with him in this Chamber during the debate on the Division of Revenue Bill among others. However, I am a democrat. I believe in doing things right. It does not matter that it was done wrong. I still believe that he should have been treated differently and given a fair hearing. The Jubilee side should have entertained an alternative view, particularly on a matter that is important as the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) that is supposed to build bridges as we are told. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Sen. Wamatangi, who is the new Senate Majority Whip, is my friend. When I went to get myself a wife and negotiate dowry, he was on the other side with the elders and he harassed me."
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