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    "id": 1291141,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wafula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 348,
        "legal_name": "Davis Wafula Nakitare",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for this auspicious opportunity to speak about what my colleague Senators have ably articulated. I am perturbed by the way this discussion is taking course. Our dear Cabinet Secretary for Youth Affairs, Sports and the Arts has ably given his reasons why he is not able to appear here. However, I am worried by the way my colleagues are talking about the tone, the texture and the temperature of the response. We are not in a choir festival to test the tones of letters. We are dealing with a Cabinet Secretary, who leads a Ministry and is not a departmental head. He is not a captain of volleyball, rugby, or in charge of golf. He is a Cabinet Secretary. We must give our Cabinet Secretary ample time to prepare and give us facts about the Ministry that he leads. We are not preparing this Senate to be a lynching platform where Hon. Cabinet Secretaries will be coming here trembling, sweating and expecting a scenario like that of Barnabas in the Scripture. We want this House to address and handle Cabinet Secretaries in the Executive in a decent manner to allow Kenyans not to crucify people yet they are innocent. Madam Temporary Speaker, on behalf of my good Cabinet Secretary Hon. Ababu Namwamba, I stand in the gap and hold brief for him; that he will come, articulate his position, make clear what is not clear and execute what the President gave him to execute. So, the Senate Majority Leader---"
}