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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
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    "content": "nobody was heard. In fact, if the matter had gone to the public and was informed by the public, the results would have been different. Madam Deputy Speaker, now that the public, county assemblies and government institutions have spoken, why do they expect Parliament to become a voting machine? We are an important Arm of Government. I would plead with the people who are making commentary on this process to be very patient with Parliament. We know the timelines and our duty. Today we swore in a new Senator and she swore a constitutional oath. We are aware of what that oath requires of us. I hope that when the deliberations come before the Senate, each single Senator who wants to be heard should get chance to speak on this very important question. Madam Deputy Speaker, we have a very able Co-Chair. I want to remind you that if you read the deliberations either in Committee or even the literature around constitution making in America more than 200 years ago, it is those who said something that are remembered and not those who kept quiet. Those who said in the proceedings whenever they took place. There are those who wrote about it like Hamilton and Maddison are quoted today for purposes of constitutional interpretation and the thoughts that were there around the American Constitution. Madam Deputy Speaker, the next time we are going to interpret the Constitution, people would want to know when we were discussing this process, what did Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. or Sen. Murkomen say about it? The Supreme Court has said in interpreting the Constitution, you must be contextual. You must take into account what happened when the process was going on. Therefore, I hope that this process will be a successful conclusion. Nobody is opposing the process. However, we must not be seen to be just voting machines. I am not ready to do that. Not this time and never."
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