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    "id": 1212714,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1212714/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13219,
        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
        "slug": "erick-okongo-mogeni"
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, your office does not serve the interest of just one day. Your office should serve posterity. If you read our Standing Orders - and I am saying this with a very heavy heart because we are elected leaders from 47 counties with special interest Senators here - changing leadership is a very small matter. I came here to debate a serious issue that transpired yesterday before County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC), where Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) is levying distress on my County of Nyamira, for non-payment of PAYE for salaries for the month of December and January, yet my county has never received disbursement. Now, here, we are talking about useless court orders from a tribunal. Are we serious as Senators? At one time, it took a day for the Minority side to remove Sen. Wetangula as their leader, and there was not so much hullabaloo. If you read the HANSARD, when the Governor of Wajir was being impeached, we were served with a court order, not from a tribunal but the High Court of the Republic of Kenya. Since we respect the sovereignty of this House, we rejected that order. Where do you want to take us now? If we start setting a precedent that we will be receiving orders from a tribunal and you communicate from your chair, not even a County Assembly can do what we are doing."
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