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    "id": 1423624,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1423624/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13165,
        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
        "slug": "aaron-cheruiyot"
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank you for your Communication before the House. I respect it, but greatly feel that it falls far way below the expectation of the House in the sense that, it addresses only part of what was raised. However, there are other issues not addressed in your Communication. Maybe you can guide the House. Mr. Speaker, Sir, a reading of Article 228 (6) is not only plain. In law, they speak of the letter and the spirit. While the letter speaks of four months quarterly, the spirit, which is indeed what led to Members intervening that afternoon, has been that these reports were sent on a month by month basis. There is a history to this. I was a Member of the Committee on Finance and Budget at that time when we had a meeting with the then CoB. We agreed that for Senators to perform their oversight duties prudently, then it is important that a Senator is furnished with the monthly reports on a month by month performance of their county. Out of that meeting, they began sending those reports to our pigeon holes. Therefore, I do not think that has been sufficiently addressed. The reason I had requested that you ask her to come here is so that she understands the history of how we arrived at that decision. In fact, we had grown that conversation to a level where we said, apart from just dropping it in our pigeon holes, we live in the 21st century, a digital age, I submit my official email address to be furnished with that report. By the time this Senate made that resolution, that was the eventual decision and the finding of the House. Therefore, I felt it was important for this current CoB to come before us, so that she appreciates the history. Unfortunately, you letter addresses the letter of the law, but not the spirit of it. Therefore, I agree with your ruling. I do not challenge it, but plead with you that through other means, you find ways of communicating with her so that she appreciates why it is important for Senators to have month on month reports on what their governors are doing with the finances that are being sent to their specific counties. That makes you a better Senator so that, you do not speculate or rumor monger, but do things which you know are accurate and verified from Government reports. If that can be addressed, then I feel that the point of order will have been sufficiently dispensed with. I humbly submit."
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