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    "id": 1099266,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Where are their Senate Majority and Deputy Majority Leaders? Where are their Speakers and Deputy Speakers? Where is the leadership of the Senate? The Senate has been weakened by what we ourselves did. We accepted to be used and misused by the Executive. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, even those of us who used to work with the Executive and were in leadership had the audacity to lead this House to go to court. Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki led us as the Senate Majority Leader. We went to the Supreme Court, and that is why this House still exists today. Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki again went to the Court of Appeal to represent matters on the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI). If the BBI had passed, this House would be useless. All of you here who are male would have been called male representatives to the Senate. You would not even be Senators. If you come from Narok, they would say, “Sen. Olekina, the male representative of Narok County.” There also would be a female representative of Narok County. It would have been a very useless House with its responsibility removed. The protection of minority groups, which was intended by this Constitution--- For a vote to be passed in this House, it must get 24 votes, which is a super requirement for an absolute majority to vote for something in this House. It was going to be removed by BBI. Gallant men and women of this country went to court to defend the institutions of governance, including this House. I feel so ashamed that Senators in this House voted for that BBI. What a great shame. We were going to be an absolutely useless House. If there is something that I celebrate today, it is that BBI collapsed. If I come to this House again, I would come to some semblance of an institution that still exists. BBI was going to obliterate this Senate and make it the most useless entity of governance, yet it has been the only entity that has stood firm for devolution."
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