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"content": "Majority side, through a very unprocedural way, to effect Standing Order No.123. My plea to you as a colleague, is to let the bygones be bygones. Let us learn from our mistakes and find a way to cool down these temperatures. We all need each other. At any given time when a Senator is not seated here because of spur of the moment actions, the people that he or she represents end up suffering. Today, the whole day, I mean, it is 5.32 p.m., and we are still waiting for this Speaker to come back. Moreover, we have not discussed anything the whole day. There, was a Motion of Kenyans who are still seeking compensation from the bombing of 1998. We have issues of electricity that Sen. Chute had discussed. Do you really want to tell me – and this is to all of you, my colleagues – that we shall reduce the two and a half hours that we have in the Senate, to be a time of bickering, hurling insults and calling each other names? I am really disappointed and ashamed of this House today. I request my colleagues to please act our age. Today we are not acting our age. We are insulting each other back and forth and it is not helping us. I said, I take full responsibility on what happened on our side and I request you; Mr. Temporary Speaker, to let it be bygones. They are highly regretted and the only way we can remain as one House, is when we learn to tolerate one another. I thank you."
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