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    "id": 1072488,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Sen. Khaniri, beyond your Petition just coming here, we need to encourage more citizens of this Republic, through public interest litigation, to go to court and stop these orders. How come the ERC is always increasing the price of fuel? Mr. Temporary Speaker, I have never seen any member of ERC holding public participation in Korogocho, Kibera or Embobut where I come from. How come they just wake up one morning and increase or reduce the price of fuel without proper public participation? They never reduce. In fact, if they have the power to increase, why do they not ever reduce? The excuse we are always given is international prices. When the international price improves, why do they not reduce the cost of fuel? I encourage citizens of this country; somebody needs to take up this matter to court under public interest litigation. Maybe this time, Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki should be the lawyer of the next Omtata. It may not be the Omtata we know. All of us here can be behind Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki to take public interest litigation about the cost of fuel and how the cost is being increased. We can do this until we are provided with transparent, verifiable and clear mechanisms being used to increase the cost of fuel. I agree with Sen. (Dr.) Langat who said we were part of Jubilee. We are the ones who went everywhere saying kumira kumira, tano tena and wembe ni ule ule . The other side, I am facing, were saying mambo yabadilika and mambo yawezekana . Now, they are in the Government and they are saying wembe ni ule ule . Those of us who were on this side are the ones who are now speaking on behalf of Wanjiku. Those who were in the Opposition and we used to tell them wembe ni ule ule, are telling us wembe ni ule ule . Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this game of musical chairs must stop. We must wake up as politicians and start putting public interest in place. I have told my colleagues who are in the opposition who are insulting judges that when we lost, I have said this even on my Twitter account, the elections of 2017 and President Uhuru Kenyatta’s election was declared null and void; we were so close to the President and it was crazy. Of course, we are not going to say some things here and it is left to our memoirs. However, one thing I remember and must admit is that most of us criticized the judges. I was there when the President said that we will revisit. I was there. We thought it was a joke. We were cheering and happy, we went to Muthurwa and said we are criticizing judges. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we now have the benefit of history and experience. Those who used to defend the Judiciary and got that court order against President Uhuru Kenyatta and nullification of his election are now sitting on the same table with President Uhuru Kenyatta. They are brothers, even though jokingly they are being called null and void. However, what they call themselves is that they are brothers. Those brothers sitting at that table must now not fall into temptation of attacking the Judiciary. I saw the Secretary General of Jubilee threatening judges that in any case, you will need police to take you home. That is a thinly veiled threat that we will withdraw your protection. This is very serious. You know that hon. Tuju would never be holding any office today had the courts not given him an order against his bankruptcy."
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