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    "id": 1252424,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1252424/?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, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I want to thank our colleagues who have taken time to speak to this Motion. Many of them were actually in support of the decision of the Senate Business Committee (SBC) to go in this particular route. I appreciate their comments. I believe that this Committee will return a verdict that by and large will be favourable to the people of Siaya. That is what is at the heart of this matter, that eventually the county will be able to move forward and achieve the dream of our nation’s founders when they wrote the words of our national anthem that “prosperity be found within our borders”. The County of Siaya is within our borders. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to address you on a completely separate matter. I do not know how it escaped my mind when we did the Impeachment Motion of Hon. Kawira Mwangaza. To the best of my recollection, each time we have had this procedural Motion; when the Speakers who were your predecessors were invited to make a determination on how the Senate will vote on that matter, on many occasions, they have ruled that this is not a matter that concerns counties because it is a procedural Motion. They, therefore, allowed us as a House to make a determination. Now, should the Committee eventually return a verdict that goes in whichever way, then it will warrant a vote by delegation. However, this is just a procedural matter, where the House is making a decision whether to carry out this trial by plenary or committee. I know that you gave a ruling during the impeachment Motion of Governor Kawira Mwangaza. I, however, have a request in view of Article 123 (2). Allow me to"
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