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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, none of us from the Minority side mean to disrespect the Chair or anyone occupying that seat at any particular time. We are getting frustrated because this is not why we were elected to come to the Senate. We have serious business to transact. We do not understand how a simple matter such as Communication from the Chair requires all this drama. Our point of departure with the Chair is under Article 107(b) in the Constitution: - “In the absence of the Speaker, the Deputy Speaker presides.” That is exactly why we have Members of the Speakers’ Panel. It does not have to be the substantive Speaker for any business of the House to be transacted. There are Members of the Speakers’ Panel here who come and transact business there. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the question I am asking myself is, if indeed you say that in your capacity as the Deputy Speaker, sitting on that Chair, you cannot undertake a simple task like reading a Communication, how then would you transact Bills and Motions, which are far more serious matters that have to wait for the substantive Chair? Secondly, I want to say here: Nobody is going to scare us. This is our House. I was elected here and in both Houses of Parliament, no Member got as many votes as Sen. Sifuna. You are not going to threaten me! You have nothing on me!"
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