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    "id": 1210545,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker Sir, I rise to support this Motion. As others have said, it is an important one. Ordinarily, once this it is moved by the Majority and gets the backing of the leadership of the Minority, it quickly becomes a point of convergence and calls upon us to remain brief so that we can discharge the business. However, because of what has transpired this afternoon, I wish to make a few comments. The first one is that, yes, on our side the Majority, we have not changed the names. We had reasons to do so. On the side of the Minority, changes have been made. I am confident that the leadership of the Minority did the necessary consultations to arrive at these changes. If such consultations were not done, that should not be expected to be solved on the Floor of the House. Even if one wanted to achieve the same, it is not possible because the Motion that is being moved is as it is with the names as stated. Sen. Wambua is very loud and clear about his expectations on his side. Allow me to assure Members of Jubilee, should it come to pass that you leave the Minority side and come to the Majority side, I am ready and willing to assign you responsibilities in various Committees. You will be warmly received. You will enjoy the same privileges if not better than you are enjoying on the other side. I also want to thank the Minority side. In the last Session, they have taken issues blow by blow. They have supported the things they were convinced they needed to support and opposed when they had to. If we carry this maturity to the current Session, I am confident that we will help the SBC to discharge more business for us for the interest of the public. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have three points. First, we must get business going. We have inherited a country that is faced with serious problems. As Government, we have inherited a country that is facing severe insecurity in the Rift and northern parts of the country. We need to fix it. It is only this Parliament that can give the necessary infrastructure. We have inherited a country that is in a total economic mess and requires a lot of fixing. The President has even proposed budgetary cuts, so as to see how best to get the economy going. The President is very loud, and correctly so, that all Kenyans must pay taxes. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I remember President Mwai Kibaki with nostalgia. He was also very clear and firm that companies, people – small and large – should pay taxes. We did so and we turned the economy around. If companies pay taxes, it is just a matter of time and we turn our economy for the interest of the minority and the majority. That is where we want to take our country. We have inherited a country that the Government has left the education sector in total chaos. They have even introduced a programme called the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC)."
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