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    "id": 1208613,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank you for the opportunity to make a comment and contribute to this Motion. From the word go, I want to state emphatically that I support the Motion. Secondly is to congratulate the Members that have been appointed to sit in the Committee. When you look at the names that have been floated by both the Senate Majority Leader and Senator Minority Leader, these are the names of people who are very competent in many fields. When you are dealing with a matter as a Senate, it is always important to look at the individual competencies of Members that you appoint to committees so that they can bring some expertise and institutional memory into the matter under discussion. Next time if there is an issue to deal with the media, I want to advise the leadership on both sides to consider including Sen. Enoch Wambua in that list because I am a journalist of long and good standing. It is important to say that having two former Governors in this Committee brings on board expertise on matters governance. The issues being challenged here are issues to do with governance. Not many of us here have been governors. It is a privilege for this Senate to have Sen. Roba and Sen. Mandago seated here as former Governors. This is because when there are issues of governance, then they come in, not just as Senators, but as resource persons on matters of governors. Lastly is the issue of procedure. That is where I see a bit of deviation between those who support and those who do not support--- I would all of us, including myself, to"
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