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    "id": 1103926,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": " Madam Deputy Speaker, I wish to thank all distinguished Senators who have participated in this debate. I emphasize that this Motion has been bipartisan in the sense that it has received support from both sides of the House. I want to demonstrate, particularly to Sen. Halake, the importance of a censure Motion. Normally, in parliamentary democracies, a censure Motion would never get to the Floor of the House. This is because the ruling party would never allow it to come to the Floor because they know its consequence. They would never allow a censure Motion against their own to be given priority. Therefore, the impact of a censure Motion is important in the sense that Governments that operate in Parliaments know the stigma of being censured, be it a Cabinet Secretary or Government. It is something that the electorate would take seriously. We were in Bahamas recently. The discussion that was going on was about the conduct of the Government in power and what the Ministers were doing. Some who had Motions like this presented before the Parliament in Bahamas. You would predict, from the people of that country, that the Government was going to lose that election and they lost thoroughly because of Motions like this. You will notice that this Motion was prioritized, which means that it has the support of both sides. It was taken before the Leadership and the Plenary of the House. In fact, it was in the middle of a debate in Plenary that many Members unanimously said that they needed a substantive Motion to discuss the conduct of CSs and also express their concerns on the escalating rise of fuel and electricity. That is not enough. In parliamentary democracies, and it has happened here, many people will not wait for the censure Motion to hit the Floor. The moment they hear that there will be a censure Motion, unless their side, be it the Government or opposition will offer resistance, then the particular person would resign from that position. I gave the example of the former Vice President, Josephat Karanja. It was a Motion like this. He was not obliged to resign. However, because the censure Motion had been brought before Parliament, he had no alternative but to resign from that position. Nobody forced him; he made a decision to resign. It has been cited. There was Motion that was brought before Parliament, and as a result of that Motion-- - Although he resisted resignation, the Government of the day said that they could not have him until that matter was properly cleared because of the decision that was made by the National Assembly at that time."
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