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    "content": "Hon. Senators, as you may recall, at the sitting of the Senate held on Tuesday, 14th November, 2023, several Senators rose on points of order pursuant to Standing Order No.105(1), to require the Senator for Nairobi City County, Sen. Edwin Sifuna, to substantiate statements made in the course of debate. The utterances by Sen. Edwin Sifuna, were made while the Senator was making his contribution on the Motion for the President’s Address to Parliament, pursuant to Article 132(1)(c) and 240(7) of the Constitution. The particulars of the statements that Sen. Sifuna was required to substantiate were as follows- (a) Sen. Mohammed Chute, MP, sought the intervention of the Speaker, to require Sen. Edwin Sifuna to substantiate the statement that- “Mr. Speaker, Sir, we were told about the question of subsidising the price of fertilizers. Now, it is public record that, in fact, some of these subsidized fertilizers came to this country as a donation from the Government of Russia.” (b) Sen. (Dr.) Boni Khalwale, MP, sought the intervention of the Speaker to require Sen. Edwin Sifuna, to substantiate the statement that- “Mr. Speaker, Sir, the President also announced that in June of this year, his administration would employ 103 Community Health Promoters (CHPs). We saw him flagging off the distribution of 100,000 kits to be used by those people. The fact of the matter is, that is not true. In fact, counties are supposed to identify the people to be recruited as CHPs and that progress is ongoing. You cannot claim something has happened, yet it has not happened, just to massage the numbers and appear like your Government is working.” (c) Sen. Veronica Maina, MP, sought the intervention of the Speaker to require Sen. Edwin Sifuna, MP, to substantiate the statement that-"
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