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    "id": 1203738,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "My senior, Sen. Murkomen, likes to tell us that we are new people. We may be new in this Senate but we are not new to reading. It is very straightforward here. Perhaps, when you began with your communication on leadership, you started by telling us who wrote you what letter. All that Senior Counsel Sen. Omogeni is saying is, even in the communication on the Membership of this Committee, could you please as the Chairperson tell us that a letter was received from X coalition listing the following Members as its nominees in the language of Standing Order 190? Mr. Speaker, Sir, that is all we are asking. Secondly, “the custodian of all agreements”, Sen. Murkomen cannot come here to tell the House who is in which coalition and who is not. I happen to be not just the Senator of Nairobi City County but also the Secretary General of ODM. Sen. Murkomen, I know what we signed. We are the authority on the coalition documents that we signed. Without any fear of contradiction, I can say that I know all the Secretary Generals of all the political parties who signed onto the Azimio Coalition. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in your own decision on the question of the leadership, you have recognised an entity called Azimio that wrote to you and set the leadership of the House. You said that that is the Minority coalition. You have already decided. So, could the Chairperson please tell us who nominated Sen. Ali Roba? Is it the Minority side? Is it under the same hand that nominated my colleague sitting in the front row or did it come from some other political entity? Lastly, if there is a question as to which political party belongs where, the authority is certainly neither Sen. Murkomen nor you. It is the registrar of political parties who is the custodian of all the agreements including the ones that Sen. Murkomen wants to purport to have been signed between UDM and UDA. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are at the beginning of this House. We must have some sanctity and respect for the marriages people enter into. If we continue not respecting institutions, the next thing you will hear is that peoples’ wives are being taken left right and centre."
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