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    "id": 1356295,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Question No.074 is by Sen. Onyonka as well on the Government-to-Government (G-to-G) agreement between Kenya and the Gulf countries for the supply of fuel to Kenya. I continue to liaise with the Office of the Prime Cabinet Secretary to ensure that our Cabinet Secretaries appear before this House and are held accountable by the representatives of the people gathered here. In conclusion, let me take this opportunity to commend all hon. Senators for the work done and every effort made to dispense with business both at committee and plenary sittings. However, we are at the tail end of the Second Session and we need to put more effort as our intray is rather full. I want to address the Whips, Sen. Sifuna and Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale. We have barely three weeks and there are very critical businesses which even as we retreat for the December holidays, it will be difficult to face our electorate and tell them that this business has been before the Senate for all this time and we have not concluded. I want to plead with all of us that let us use the time properly. Thursday is a working Parliamentary day just like any other. I do not understand why on many occasions, on Thursday afternoons, a time like now, many Members will slowly check out early in advance. If we could push certain Bills this afternoon, like the ones I had mentioned on Equalisation Fund Appropriation Bill, PwDs Bill and so many others, and target to conclude on the others in the next three weeks, then we will have earned a well-deserved long recess period. Otherwise, it will be extremely unfortunate if we head to recess with some of the Bills that are addressing very pertinent issues. There are Bills on coffee, tea, sugarcane and so many others lined up on the Order Paper of the House. I plead with you colleague Senators, led by our Whips, that let us be available in the House; today in the afternoon and the whole of next week. Let us push as hard as possible to conclude this Bill. I thank you."
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