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    "id": 1231246,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen Sifuna",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you look at the wording of Standing Order No.53, all of us, Senators, have the opportunity to request for Statements and information. There is nothing that bars Sen. Cherarkey from asking about the collections of KRA from as way back as 1963. However, you cannot wait for your colleague to raise the matter before the Floor of the House and then bastardize his Statement. There is no value that Sen. Cherarkey is adding to that particular Statement. Secondly, let people substantiate the things that they are saying here. If an accusation is being made by Sen. Cherarkey that this House has some economic saboteurs, he needs to substantiate who those economic saboteurs are. As I speak, as the Senator of Nairobi City County, even now, they are protests outside here. We are not the ones who have organized those protests. Why are we not accusing those people whistling out there that they are economics saboteurs? We have had a conversation at the Senate Business Committee (SBC), Committee levels, and at the leadership of this House, that we would want to have a sober debate in this House. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are restraining ourselves because we want to respect the rules of debate in this House. However, every time Sen. Cherarkey stands up, he uses the opportunity to throw jabs, as you have noted. Action needs to be taken against him so that we do not have to sit here and be insulted as we look because he is under the protection of the Standing Orders. I am sure if we went on this street outside here, he will not dare repeat those things that he is saying to us because we will deal with him. Let him not abuse the protection of his House to misbehave."
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