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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "violence in Kenya’s political space. Further, due to conflicting schedule, I will not be able to attend the meeting scheduled to take place on Wednesday.’’ The other Cabinet Secretaries have indicated that they would desire to be here and request for rescheduling of the meeting. However, the other Cabinet Secretary is telling us that she will not attend the meeting on the day we want her to and that she gave her responses to whoever asked. She does not even recognize that these people represent the larger population. What she implies is that if we find that her responses are not adequate enough, we can consider inviting her again to the Senate. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Chapter 10 of the Constitution talks about three serious Cs that we, as a House, must deliberate on. The first one states that a leader who holds public office like hon. Aisha Jumwa and even ourselves, must be capable. Secondly, they must be competent, and thirdly, they must be credible. All those Cs are disputed by the contents of this letter. This is the highest level of disrespect not only to you as the Speaker, but also to this House. In response to the content of the letter we received from hon. Aisha Jumwa, this House must invite the content of Standing Order No.51. As a Member of this House, I wish the Majority side the courage, especially, the Majority Whip. This afternoon, draft a Motion and bring it to this House for the censorship of this Cabinet Secretary. This is the highest level of disrespect. I have shown you clearly why I will take the responses of the other two Cabinet Secretaries as reasonable. Secondly, we are respectful of the time of our Speaker and the respect to this House. More importantly, it is accountable to the people of Kenya. However, the no-show from the hon. Aisha Jumwa is unacceptable. For us to send a message of why we have Standing Order No.51(d), this Cabinet Secretary must be censored. If the Majority Whip does not have the courage to draft that censorship Motion and the Senator for Nandi does not dare to, I will take the courage and draft the Motion. So that, as a House, we send a message to Cabinet Secretaries that we are not here to waste our time. We have many amazing Bills. I have read the Bill from the Senator from Mombasa, Sen. Miraj, who cares about gender issues more than what the Cabinet Secretary has done in a case where violence is killing women in this country. I need to spend time considering that Motion. We have many other good Bills in this House that we need to spend our time discussing rather than discussing the absence of Cabinet Secretaries every single time. As I sit, this Cabinet Secretary needs a serious response from this House. I hope the Majority side, led by Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, alias \"the bullfighter,\" will act. If they do not, I will bring that Motion today or tomorrow. I hope the Senators will find the Motion reasonable and good for the people of Kenya and the Cabinet Secretaries."
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