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    "id": 1224548,
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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": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I thank colleagues who have taken time to contribute. Those in support and those opposed. That is the beauty of our democracy. That while many will agree with you, there are some who will not. However, we are a constitutional democracy. While registering my remarks, I must continue to remind the country to be alive to the kind of democracy we are seeing in the Senate these days. When the Minority side senses defeat in any Motion, they walk out. That is why they can never accept results of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). They are not democrats. I have been in this House for the last five years and I was in the Minority. We used to remain only seven in the House and yet we would speak and make our points. Eventually, we would go ahead and lose honorably because that is the beauty of democracy. I have listened to the contributions of colleagues who are concerned that there has been a wish list that had been presented by Senators in Mombasa and another part of the country. What we are debating is a Motion brought to us by the Procedures and Rules Committee in reaction to a letter I wrote requesting that the Standing Orders be amended. If the Minority side wishes to convince the same Committee, I am sure they know the procedures. Indeed, one of them had tried to do so. That is, Sen. Faki of Mombasa County. He tried to move the Committee to allow that leadership of the Committee on Delegated Legislation be granted to the Minority side. I listened to the contribution by Sen. M. Kajwang’. I am afraid that he misled this House. If you argue that statutory documents and regulations come to this House from the Executive and it is only the Minority that can oversight them, why then do we have leadership on this side on chairmanship of other Committees? Almost all Bills and business in this House come from the same Executive. Therefore, I do not agree with those who hold the view such as his in regard to the Committee on Delegated Legislation. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I agree with the findings of your Committee. I want to be quick about this. I have seen the pain you have gone through this afternoon trying to explain yourself and being drawn into debate. You are so magnanimous. If I was seated on your Chair, I would not have allowed Sen. Okiya Omtatah to get away with the words that he used on you claiming that your conduct is unbecoming. That shall be left in the copies of the HANSARD of the House. However, because of the unique situation where you find yourself, you had to allow. I will have you remember that in the 12th Parliament, the National Assembly Speaker Muturi, now Attorney-General, seated where you are, found himself in the same situation such as this. A Member of the National Assembly had behaved in a disorderly"
}