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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, I will not take long. We might have a Bomet overdose and the people of Bomet will be shocked. I just want to say a few things. First, I send my serious and deep condolences to the people who have lost their lives and property during this time in Laikipia. We have cyclic problems in the country. Albert Einstein said that trying to do the same thing, the same way and expecting different results, is the height of insanity. In the last Parliament, when I chaired the Committee on National Cohesion and Equal Opportunities, we went to Baragoi, Maralal, Lokwal and Nakuse in Turkana on the same exact issues. When I heard the Senator for Tana River speak, I remembered going to Tana River. It is painful that they are talking about drought, yet there is River Tana, which is flowing and we have been unable to take advantage of. If you go to Kipini, there are gushes of millions of litres of that river flowing into the ocean, yet people are dying of hunger. There is something wrong with us. It cannot be 10 and more years, yet every year, we talk about drought in the country. Therefore, something must be done. I was following the proceedings and it is unfortunate how we allowed this to degenerate into lambasting the Committee on National Security and Foreign Relations. I chaired that Committee for two years, and I know that its work is not easy. Every Member in this House is able in any Committee. There is no Committee that has less able Members. We need to support them in the work they are doing. If we belittle each other, the people of the county where the Chair comes from are listening. Are we trying to tell them that their Senator is useless? It is unfair. We need to have a habit of having frequent"
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