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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "A closer interaction will be such that on an occasion where a county assembly is grappling with a matter, say where the law is not clear, a counterpart call to a particular committee of the Senate would make it possible for them to quickly get an answer without the trouble of travelling and all the other things. I equally welcome the students of political science from Maasai Mara University. I believe that they will have a full view of the study during their interactions with Members of this House and the “Lower House” and the many things for which they have visited this House to learn. I hope they will get to learn better habits, and that they will make better politicians in future. We can establish good cultural practices, not cherry- picking like we are seeing the case right now, where there is selective reading and application of the Constitution. In the media, of late, I have seen a continuous, almost to nauseating levels, quotation and citation of Article 37 of our Constitution. The same Constitution that provides for the Bill of Rights and Article 37 provides for judicial authority as well, such that when a matter has been laid to rest by one of the organs of that Constitution, then we should not be having street protests about the same. We need to teach our students to become better politicians; people who will know that you can compete and shake hands. That is courtesy. Unfortunately, because of politics in this country, we have never experienced the beauty of what a concession speech looks like. The last time we saw one was in 2002, when the former President Uhuru Kenyatta conceded defeat. We need to learn such good political practices that we see and envy in other parts of the world, where if you compete for MCA, MP, governor, or president, when your opponent is announced to have defeated you, you should shake their hand and do what is dutifully expected of you and not to do the kind of things that we continue to see in this country. It is unfortunate. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I believe, and I have a lot of faith in the students that are in the Public Gallery, that they will be better politicians than those of the current generation. I thank you."
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