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"content": "Hon. Senator, please allow me to finish. Sen. Sifuna has already received punishment. That is enough. We want to engage. We are trying to discuss. We want to restore calm and run our businesses. The way PLO Lumumba says, do not respond to a mosquito bite with a hammer. Do not go for an over kill. We will set a bad precedent because this a House of records. You invoke it today against Sen. Sifuna, I assure you Senators, tomorrow, it will be you. In the last Parliament and the Senate Majority Leader, Sen. Cheruiyot, can correct me, we only had one expulsion from the House. Only one for a record of five years. Only Sen. Malala was sent out for the reminder of the day. This Parliament has now done six expulsions. We are not doing so well. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if you read Standing Order No.122, before you even call a Senator, it says, on the first occasion if he becomes very disorderly on a second or subsequent occasion during the same Session, you now take it up to seven days. If another time, he again persists, now you can invite Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, to invoke Standing Order No. 123. Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale is from Kakamega County and Sen. Sifuna is the Senator for Nairobi City County, but he is his neighbour in Bungoma. I plead, let us not be over- reactive. It is good to express our anger. That is okay because we are human. However, let us also not overact. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have already apologized for what has happened this afternoon. Some of us are new in this House. Therefore, we learning. Please accept. We are also human. I know how you feel when there are these exchanges. It is not good for you. Nonetheless, you are a son of a respected elder, the late Sen. Yusuf Haji. You know, when we had serious disagreements here on Division of Revenue, we used to refer to him. He is the one who used to guide, calm us and restore order. Therefore, like father like son. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, calm down. You have already punished Sen. Sifuna. We move on, so that we can become each other’s keepers. Today it is me and tomorrow it will be you. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I submit."
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