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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "As Sen. Sakaja has mentioned, Solai Dam and others, I would have loved to see an amendment to the procedure of impeachment of governors during plenary. There is a camera session that does not make sense. That should have either been amended or removed. The Implementation Committee would have been important because for the effectiveness of this House, we have had problems. I would have loved to see a better way of working with the Parliamentary Budget Office in this one. Therefore, those being the concerns, we support but hope that next time, there will be an element of consultation amongst ourselves with the relative experience of being here for 10 years with Sen. Orengo and others. I do not know when that would be, we would not be here. One or two comments would have been useful. To explain his point, the Committee on Finance and Budget has prepared an exit report on the challenges we have had so that it can inform the next Senate. Therefore, the amendment of the Standing Orders should also inform the Senate of the challenges the first and second Senate have had so that the next Senators who are not going to be Sen Orengo, Sen. Sakaja, Sen. Wako, myself or many others, are going to face. The third Senate is going to face many challenges. If you recall, starting with the Miscellaneous Amendment that was passed to remove the mandate of the Senate in interrogating commissions under Article 153. There is a push by people who do not like devolution to make sure that the Senate becomes weaker and weaker. We must claim jurisdiction. Look for it, even if it is not there and put it there so that the law can consequently be amended so that the Senators can be effective on audit and other matters, which have gone unhandled. The governor of Machakos County has the most arrest warrants since the invention of arrest warrants yet nothing has happened since. Therefore, those weaknesses should have been addressed in this Standing Orders."
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