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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I want to join my colleagues in appreciating the good work that the Cabinet Secretary for Defence is doing. I will be quick to ask a question, which I strongly feel if our colleague, Sen. Cheptumo, had been well, he would have asked. I know he has been unwell for the last few days. Therefore, I want to ask this on behalf of the children of Baringo where he comes from. As I speak today, more than 30 or 40 schools in the last count that I had, cannot go to school on account of insecurity. The Cabinet Secretary sits in the National Security Council (NSC). Secondly, the Constitution has enabled him--- If you read Article 241(3)(c), the military personnel can be deployed to restore peace in any part of the country where there is disturbance, with the approval of the National Assembly. I have not seen such an approval. I am wondering what is it that it will take for the Cabinet Secretary to make this request to restore peace in that part of the country. Since I know the Cabinet Secretary very well. He is my good friend and I do know where he comes from. If it was not for education, my good friend, the Cabinet Secretary, Hon. Duale, would have been in Dujis herding camels. Currently, he does not herd them for a living, but has them now as a luxury, like any well to do man would do from that part of the country. If it was not for education, he would not have had the opportunity to be where he is in life. How can he possibly sit comfortably in the NSC knowing that there are more The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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