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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "I send my condolences to the family of the lady that Sen. Thang’wa talked about and also the women in Migori County. This exposes our nation’s structure on being able to support women and make sure that they are safe in their modes of striving for economic empowerment and activities. In the nature of how we find ourselves as a continent and mostly in Kenya, some of our household economics are mostly supported by women. Women come out very strongly to look for ways of thriving every day and feeding our families. It is sad if we cannot secure their lives in whichever form, be it an attack from hyenas or from rogue Matatu drivers and operators. Sometimes it is in them of just having proper infrastructure that can help them to do the activities, whether in agriculture or otherwise, in a proper way. That said, Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is the mantra that you do not sometimes quote yourself or talk about your Statement. My intention is not to talk about my Statement on the Moroccan Embassy because I will engage with the Committee appropriately as required. However, it is extremely important that I add my voice on this issue of the PS, Dr. SingOei because we are losing the script. The script was very simple. You hosted foreign dignitaries after they made it into the country. The intention of the statement is what is most important. I urge the Senate Majority Leader, together with the Senate Majority Whip, that character assassination is a serious thing in this country. What you say is not consumed only by you, but by so many Kenyans. This is a serious Government official. What he says cannot come as a simple statement of fun on a Twitter page. What he said in the eyes of the public and the eyes of many people intended to demean the Speaker. It intended to suggested that the Speaker of the Senate of Kenya was playing a role that was not his and was, therefore, taking the duties of the Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs. This is the fact. I like the fact that the Senate Majority Leader read the tweet as it was phrased. It was not phrased as a normal routine tweet of explaining to you my job and what I do. It wanted to escape from the responsibility of the fact that before that foreign diplomat made it to our country, there is a sincere responsibility in the Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs to know that they were in the country. If they travel from Somaliland to this place without the Ministry knowing or even being able to have them pay a courtesy call to them, then it indicts the Ministry for being extremely porous, which is the competence Sen. Osotsi was talking about. How come these foreign diplomats made it to our country, then came to pay a courtesy call to our Speaker and then you want to blame the Speaker for hosting them? It is extremely wrong. This can work either way - the idea of we should not eat our cake and have it. In the same way that the Ministry cannot eat their cake and have it at the same time. The PS sincerely and in good faith owes the Speaker an apology for casting aspersions that the Speaker was trying to take his job. This apology, perhaps should not be given directly to the Speaker. He should just go back to the same Twitter . This is because he operates very well on Twitter and engages people very well on that platform. He should then just apologize and clarify that the mistake was made from his side. He"
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