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    "id": 1231663,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.55, which must be read alongside your previous rulings on the manner in which we prosecute statements on the Floor of this House. You have previously ruled that requests for statements should not degenerate into a debate where people give partisan opinions. The request for statements is done to facilitate the respective committees to do an interrogation of issues. Going by the Constitution of Kenya, we have a Presidential system; the Executive does not sit here. This is the Legislature. It is a mockery of this House, the Institution of Parliament and the Republic of Kenya for Sen. Cherarkey to purport to behave as if he is a member of the Executive. Sen. Cherarkey is behaving as if he is the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for National Treasury and Planning, to provide excuses and reasons the economy is in its current state. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Government that Sen. Cherarkey is so vehemently defending did not see him fit to become a Chairperson of any committee when it came to the distribution of leadership positions in this House. He had to come to my Committee where we donated to him the Vice-Chairperson position of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). Why is he today mourning louder that even the Senator for Kakamega County, who is the Senate Majority Whip? Mr. Speaker, Sir, my substantive point of order is that the direction that this debate is going to take will be in violation of your earlier rulings on the manner in which we should prosecute statements. Sen. Cherarkey must get rid of this notion that he is a member of the Executive. He is a Senator like all of us. He does not have answers. When Sen. Onyonka asks that question, it is for the benefit of the House. It is not for the benefit of one side of the House. Therefore, he should stop the hallucination that he is in power. If he were in power, he would have been the Chairperson of Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee (JLAHRC)."
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