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    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, as you have already directed in your Communication, I shall be reaching out and writing to the Minority Leadership and hopefully both here and the Senate, for us to have a forum. I want to beg that your office as the Chairperson of the Parliamentary Service Commission facilitates us so that we can have a forum for talks before the talks. My good friend, Hon. Opiyo Wandayi, likes to taunt me about talks before the talks. I agree with him because, as you have mentioned, such a Motion can only come to establish this Committee if we agree on the terms of reference and what the Committee will look into. It is not lost on you that we cannot have a Motion that is not agreed on. Therefore, I will be taking up that direction and challenge. This afternoon, indeed the time the Leader of the Minority Party retreats to his office, he will find a letter on his desk asking that we have a forum— hopefully before the end of this week—that I pray Parliament will facilitate. I hope to sit with the Leader of the Minority Party in the National Assembly, the Leader of the Minority Party in the Senate, the Leader of the Majority Party in the Senate, and the proposed Co-Chairmen proposed by the two coalitions, and harmonise whatever issue that is up for deliberations. As you have said, let me invite all of us to be measured in what we say and do. The only thing we have and must value in this country is the peace and tranquility we enjoy. Any disruption of that peace and tranquility does not augur well for us as leaders or the people we represent. As leaders, we have a bigger responsibility and duty to safeguard the peace and tranquility the people of Kenya enjoy because they have elected all of us. Even the leaders who are not in elective positions but hold leadership positions in this country have a responsibility to ensure that we hold our country together. The people of Kenya have bestowed all the trust in us to resolve issues that are of concern to them and even to us. I want to end by saying I am confident that working and reasoning together, we should sit as leaders and come up with solutions. We should harmonise the Motion on the terms of reference and what this Committee will be doing. By the time the Motion for approval of that Committee and its terms of reference come to the House, we should not be in a situation of throwing words at each other either inside or outside Parliament. That way we will have a very collegiate process that involves all of us and that will be for the benefit of our country. With those remarks, I stand guided by your Communication. As I have said, I have been consulting with the leadership in the Minority so that we work together in this respect. Thank you."
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