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    "id": 1199532,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1199532/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13219,
        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "I am telling those who may have lined up to finish the son of Nyamukami, son of Omogusii, you will never succeed. I am a Christian. I go to the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) church, the Catholic church, to the Evangelical church and I have people who pray for me, including my dear wife. We must send a statement that there should be fairness from the Minority side. Even if I would be the only one protesting, I go on record that I register my protestations against the list as presented. We should walk the talk. If we are preaching fairness as a coalition, we should preach fairness. In my coalition ODM, we have 14 elected Senators. Six nominated makes it 20. If you go to the Committee on National Security and Foreign Relations, it has three Jubilee Members. Jubilee has four Senators here. Where is equity there? How can that be? Why not pick one from Wiper, one from ODM and one from Jubilee? How can we allow such an injustice to be coming for the side that should be keeping the Government on check? On Sessional Committees, Sen. Mwaruma had made a passionate plea that because of institutional memory, he should be included in the Sessional Committee on County Public Accounts and Investments. However, his name is not there. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I urge the Members on the Majority side to be persuaded on the interest of all Senators sitting here. If there is fairness on the side of Minority, join us to push for fairness. That is my appeal to you here. We have done that before. This matter should be given a bipartisan approach, so that at the end of the day, what we are passing here should reflect fairness. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you want to send a message to some of us, let us know today. Our population in Kisii and Nyamira counties allows us to elect only two Senators. We have produced two Senators. Do you want us to multiply through osmosis, so that we have four Senators from Kisii and Nyamira counties?"
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