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    "id": 1420583,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13599,
        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, you caught me confirming the law on whether this House can impose the same sort of sanctions that we have seen imposed by committees on witnesses who fail to appear. I have said enough about Hon. Aisha Jumwa and I have no more to say. As a legislator, you have advised us on more than one occasion that this cannot be a House of lamentations. We need to proceed and impose a fine in accordance with the law for non-appearance of the Cabinet Secretary, Hon. Aisha Jumwa. As for my brother, the Prime Cabinet Secretary in charge of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs, Hon. Musalia Mudavadi, whom I have never seen in this House since these rules were promulgated, I am looking at the number of times he has been invited here. In fact, I have the privilege of sitting in the SBC. I remember one time he wrote a letter to this House saying that you cannot summon a Cabinet Secretary if there is only one Question to answer. He added that we should wait until there is enough material for him to appear before this House. I remember the direction we took as the SBC. We said it could be the most critical Question in the country at the moment. I thank some of the Cabinet Secretaries who have appeared here. Last week, the Cabinet Secretary for Defence, Hon. Aden Duale, appeared to answer one Question on the reopening of Uhuru Park and he left everybody here satisfied. The people of Nairobi City County are happy because the park is now open. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we should not be told such stories. Since you have directed that we should not be a House of lamentations, I want the fate that befalls Hon. Aisha Jumwa to befall the Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs, so that he feels the pinch. I request that we expedite the changes that we made to the Parliamentary Powers and Privileges Act. The enhanced fine might dissuade some people from failing to appear before the Senate. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it has been a very difficult night here in Nairobi City County. We were trying to coordinate responses to incidents of flooding across the City. I am sure this is a matter that all are aware of. Even though we did not get much sleep, we woke up in time to get here this morning because we have critical Questions to answer. If you look at the range of Questions and the discussion we were to have here, especially on arrests, detention and deportation of Kenyans in diaspora, these are critical matters. I have a critical case that has been going on even before the elections. One of our key supporters from Western Kenya, Prof. Ruth Oniang’os son, was arrested in the United States of America (USA) during the crackdown on the opioid epidemic. 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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