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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "worked with you for many years. Do not allow this Senate to be defined by the immaturity and excitement of just a few potatoes. I saw you pained while speaking to the issue of menstruation that was being canvassed on the Floor of the House. It should never happen again. We know that our girls are suffering because of the challenges of poverty due to menstruation. At the same time, we also have Kenyans who are suffering because they do not have toilets. Mr. Speaker, Sir, are you going to expect a male Senator to come here having defecated on himself, walking on stool to show that people do not have toilets at home? Would you tolerate him? You cannot. Let me inform some of these young Senators, that we will not allow you. We are not going to be demeaned collectively. We will call you out. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I recall that time you were with me in the National Assembly. A young Member of Parliament (MP) came to the House very excited one afternoon in tatters. You and I were there. He came with rugs of clothes looking like a chokoraa . The Serjeant-at-Arms tried to throw him out and the Member struggled. He was playing to the gallery in the streets; that they would say they had elected an MP who goes to the House in rugs like them and, therefore, representing them. He was thrown out the way you have thrown out Sen. Orwoba. That Member of Parliament, whose name I do not wish to mention here, has tried to win an election in Nairobi County and even changed constituencies. The voters whom he thought he was representing and impressing, have said no. If Sen. Orwoba wants to begin a career in politics, she will have to do it differently. I appeal to all of us. I look at as Sen. Kavindu Muthama and wonder what must have gone through her mind when she saw her own daughter doing what she was doing. We should not allow that collective embarrassment to colleagues. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am glad that this House and the National Assembly both have strong legal minds. Let these two Houses converge, so that where the National Assembly is right, we support. We do not fight them simply because we want to be seen to be the “Upper House”. A ‘Lower House’ can have an “upper” idea and an “Upper House” can have an inferior idea. The reason will not be because the House is called ‘lower’ and the other one is called ‘upper.’ It is because if the MPs in the Upper House have inferior ideas, the inferior ideas will define the “Upper House” and there is no way it will outshine the “Lower House”."
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