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    "id": 1224423,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "The third reason I oppose this Motion is that there was a Presidential Memorandum dated 9th of December 2022. On this, I must turn my guns on the Clerk of the Senate who sets up a task force to consider the Presidential Memorandum without a resolution of the House, direction of the Chair, resolution of any Committee or prompting by any Member on this Floor. We have been here for the last three terms of the Senate. Every time the position of the Clerk of the Senate is being whittled away through amendments to the Parliamentary Service Commission Act, it is we, the Senators, who have come together without being partisan, to protect our Clerk. I want to urge the Clerk not to be a player in this political contest. I take great exception that the Clerk could set up a taskforce to look into the Presidential Memorandum. A presidential memorandum is post-facto. In the last Parliament and when Uhuru Kenyatta was President, memoranda used to be issued after Parliament had passed a law and not as a prompt for Parliament to amend its procedures. If we vote and this matter passes, I can tell you that this will be the theatre of the absurd. With the CSs sitting here, they will regret why they said they should come to this House. We shall deal with them properly. They will be coming here not as Members of Parliament (MPs). They will have to be subjected to the rules of debate and of the House. My final concern is the manner in which the Speaker wants to contain or censure questions. If you look at the proposed amendments No. 51 (a,b,c, and d), the Speaker becomes a censure and threatens freedom of expression and speech in this House. We have parliamentary privileges. You should not be the---"
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