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    "id": 1370910,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "We have to make it clear that Senators are not asking for an additional penny to what they are entitled to. Hon. Senators and Parliament is not seeking salary increment for Members or staff. We have offices that we run in our counties. We run those offices for the sake of the people that have elected us to represent them in this House. In the running of those offices, there would be operational expenses which are supposed to be met by disbursements from the Exchequer. This is the third month since any office of any Senator received a penny for operations. Moreover, as is expected of us, we have made binding contracts with service providers for basic things like transport and water for the office. These people have kept their side of the bargain, but we are unable to pay them. Mr. Speaker, Sir, all we are saying is that enough is enough. We will not mince our words. The Executive is operating. The Members of the Executive are going about their constitutional business funded by the Exchequer. However, these arms of Government called the Parliament and the Judiciary are suffering. We will not suffer any more. To add injury to insult, I saw a Principal Secretary (PS) posturing as though he is senior to the Speaker of the Senate and pretending that he could lecture the Speaker of the Senate on matters of diplomacy. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to call upon the Senate Standing Committee responsible for matters to do with Foreign Affairs, chaired by Sen. Cheptumo, not to go and hide in a meeting with that PS, but to bring him to the Floor of this House, so that we may question him and put him where he belongs."
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