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    "id": 1196871,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1196871/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13165,
        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank you for giving me this chance to join the rest of our colleagues to congratulate Sen. Murkomen on his nomination and approval by the National Assembly. He now awaits to take the oath of office and begin his stint as the CS for Roads and Transport. He has reminded us on many occasions that he is now in charge of land, sea and air. He is a very powerful man in this country. He is my good friend. I always refer to him as the son of Reverend Johanna Kanda, to remind him of his roots, so that he does not forget the upbringing that has brought him this far. I wish to remind him as my colleague, that on this day, as we bid him farewell as a colleague in the Senate, to stay true to his roots. This is something that I wish to remind Sen. Murkomen and all of us, leaders. On many occasions, we forget that we lead extremely poor people. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we serve in high offices of Parliament. We fly business class and are able to afford the best of food in town. On many occasions, it is very easy to lose touch with reality and forget that the people we represent, upon whose ticket we got the chance to serve the country, live in raw abject poverty. I have no doubt that Sen. Murkomen will not forget about his roots. That as he leads the Ministry, he will leave a transformational programme that will better the lives of ordinary Kenyans. He will ensure that the policies he put in place will leave Kenyans far much better than before he became a Minister. That is my single most prayer. I believe it is the prayer of many people who wish him well; including his family, sons; Kiberur, Kibet and Kiptoo, his daughter Cherono and wife Gladys Wanjiru. They would have asked that I remind him to remain the true family man that he is. He should not forget his family even as he serves the nation. I believe we, as the Senate, are his second family. Sen. Murkomen should remember that Senators took a very principled position in the year 2020 when the Roads Bill made its way to the Senate. It is given that KeRRA serves interlink-ably with county governments. It was increasingly becoming a norm rather than an exemption to find in the audit report of many counties that a road done by KeRRA has also been worked on by the county government. In the process, Kenyans ended up losing a lot of money. Senators demanded to be part and parcel of the County---"
}