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    "id": 1124600,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Hon. Senator from Kericho whom I really respect has cast aspersions on the leadership, but I think he kind of corrected himself by referring to Chairperson. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I can assure you; no CS has ever rung me on a question of any proceedings before the Senate. I want to be very proud about it because I think they know what my stand would be. However, I would plead that nobody should ever write to the Speaker. It is highly irregular. Nobody writes to a judge. You write to the Clerk and the Clerk will pass that letter to the appropriate Committee. The Clerk must put it before the Committee, not the Chairperson. The Chairperson alone can also not make a decision. It must be a collective decision. In the meantime, I think what the CS should be advised is that when you have been summoned to appear before a Committee, lets say on the 20th of December, you should approach the Committee well before that day. You can give sufficient reasons why you cannot appear, so that the Committee then can make a decision on whether you should appear on that date or not. Mr. Speaker, Sir, now they have taken it for granted that all that you need to do is to write a letter or to have an excuse of one nature or the other. We must be very hard on this. Lately I have been seeing what is happening in the Congress of the United States of America, it happens all the time and you feel very proud how these people respect their institutions. Anybody who is working for the Government who does not respect Parliament should not be working in a public institution, in the first place. If they do not respect Parliament, then which other institution can they respect? Mr. Speaker, Sir, it may be repetition, but as a reminder just like the Bible says, “they may know; but they need to be reminded.” We should come out very loudly on this question. That is not debatable. I was very proud in the earlier Parliaments when a Speaker would tell Mr. Kenyatta who was a very venerable leader just coming out of the struggle, “Mr. Kenyatta, sit down! Mr. Kenyatta, you are out of order!” Mr. Speaker, Sir, sometimes when I see some of your colleagues - I am not referring to you - If the President was sitting here, they would feel like they should be leaving the Chair."
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