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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Osotsi",
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        "legal_name": "Osotsi Godfrey Otieno",
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    "content": "I am among the Members who rejected this Bill on this Floor largely because of the reason that that Bill was insufficiently addressing the issues of how to manage technopolis in this country. Second, the Ministry of Information, Communications and The Digital Economy was in the process of processing a similar Bill. This Senator went on social media and labelled us as a community that is trying to fight her because Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale and Sen. Wafula opposed it. Just because we share the same tribe, she went and blackmailed us on social media that we voted against the Bill because we are Luhyas. I voted against the Bill because of the reasons I have stated. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have also seen the kind of decorum that this Senator has subjected our Clerk, Mr. Nyegenye, to. Mr. Nyegenye is one of the longest serving employees of Parliament. I served in the National Assembly and worked very closely with him. I know he is a very professional and respectful employee but then this Senator comes with the allegations against the Clerk and the Clerk has no voice. Is he supposed to keep quiet? Mr. Nyegenye deserves respect and justice and the justice is for us to pass this Motion. I support this Motion because we must stop this kind of decorum in this House. We must bring back the respect of this House and protect the staffers of Parliament. These are professionals; not people who are in politics like us that we subject them to social media where they have no avenue to defend themselves then you use the privileges of this House to come and fight these innocent staffers. I will stand firm to support this Motion even though some of us will be having alternative views. Even if you have alternative views, think about the Senate. Where are we heading? For how long are we going to allow this kind of decorum in this House? We have seen many other things in this Senate. Sometimes, you sit here and get shocked at how some of our colleagues behave. I encourage Members to support this Motion so that it can serve as a lesson to those who want to do the same. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I served with you in the National Assembly and we had similar cases. We had a case involving Hon. Babu Owino. There was no problem, we discussed it, he apologised to the House and the matter ended there. We had another case on Hon. Didmus Barasa. The Hon. Member claimed that we were receiving sugar money in the toilet and he could not prove it. When he went to the Committee on Powers and Privileges, they found out that he had a case to answer. The matter was discussed in the House, the House agreed and Hon. Barasa apologised to the House."
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