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    "id": 1120794,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "to ensure that this House takes the Government to task. We should know where the Kshs35 billion went and the decision of the President. I am not going to listen to a Cabinet Secretary who perhaps has never met the President for the past six or seven months. I want to know the position of the President and the Government of Kenya on the question of fuel prices. That is what we want this House to deliver on. The last thing I want to talk about is that if we want to move forward as a House, we should not be debating such an important matter when the Senate Majority Leader is not here while the Deputy Senate Majority Leader has run away. The Majority Whip is ever absent and his deputy has also run away. The Chairperson of the Committee has also run away because they cannot stand any phone calls. The Speaker who knows there is contempt against him must also do something. We decided to auction this House long time ago when we put people like Sen. Olekina under pressure. We also removed other people from being chairpersons of committees in this House. We thought that there would be serious oversight if some of the chairpersons came from the minority side. Sen. Outa ran away. He cannot even call the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government. His counterpart from Kisumu, who is Sen. Nyamunga, is also complaining. She is forgetting that they are now part of the Executive. There is a problem in this country because of the whole governance model that we adopted since we had the “Handshake”. If we funded projects using, for example, billions of shillings that were set aside for the futile Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) exercise and if the actions of Government were strict--- I hope the former Prime Minister does not think that we will forget that he mobilised his Members of Parliament (MPs) to go and pass the Bill that required people to pay high taxes. He held a Parliamentary Group (PG) meeting to make sure that his MPs pay high taxes. We know that it was Hon. Gladys Wanga who was in the Finance Committee in the National Assembly. Therefore, we will not listen to anybody from the minority side passing the buck. We also do not want anybody to start blaming us. You were here when Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki was being removed. You were here cheering when we were being removed from office. So, do not say that the buck stops with those in the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) or whatever party. You should carry your cross. The “Handshake” government must be accountable to the people of Kenya for the things they have been doing for the past four years. I support."
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