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    "id": 1227265,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1227265/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13165,
        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": " Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I took time to listen to our colleagues who have taken time to contribute to this very important Motion; colleagues from Majority side and the Minority side; those in support and those who are opposing. The reason I keenly listened to each of them is that I wanted to understand, if for whatever reason there is anything that we have missed in the form and manner in which we have proposed this Motion, such that our colleagues from the Minority side will be opposed to it. Indeed, when we began this Motion, many of our colleagues on the Minority side were in support. I do not know what happened along the way, as is becoming the custom nowadays. Our colleagues are in a bad mood, they imagine that there is an animal called “server”, which until they see, nothing should work in country. However, some of us see the world differently. We believe that once upon the election is over, it is our duty now to serve the people of Kenya. Part of the constitutional mandate that I have is to ensure that I hold CSs to account and the Constitution has provided for that. I have listened to our colleagues as each of them danced around. I was hoping that any of them would cite any Constitutional provision that bars CSs from appearing in Senate as a House. There is none they could quote. In fact, to the contrary, I was hoping for something when they finish reading Article 153, which they have quoted so many times out of context. They cite Article 153(3), which speaks about CSs appearing before committees, but forget to read on. This is a common practice that I see with our colleagues. The other day I challenged and told them to stop reading the Constitution the way drunkards sometimes read the Bible, where they only refer to 1 Timothy 5:23, that it has permitted them to take wine. They close the Bible and run away. There are other dictates of a Constitution. If you read down Article 153(4), they will have understood what you are trying to do. Article 153(4), speaks that-: “Cabinet Secretaries shall – (a) act in accordance with this Constitution; and"
}