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    "id": 1442498,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "completely insensitive to them. We are the ones who have fed them this kind of literature and we are reaping what we sowed at this moment. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we cannot go on recess until the President apologises to the youth of this country. Since when did the hustlers become mutineers and wankers? Since when did our Gen Z's, our children, become saboteurs and connive to commit treason? The youth, the public and the nation deserve an apology, not the intransigent posture that we saw from President Ruto yesterday. Sometimes, we need to go back to the Bible. Look at the book of Exodus and how God hardened the heart of Pharaoh not once, twice or thrice, but almost five times. Eventually, God was trying to teach Pharaoh a lesson. Pharaoh William Ruto, God is teaching you a lesson. You have hardened your heart. Your children are in morgues and hospitals and yet you are calling them criminals and saboteurs. Even in the hardest of circumstances, God will rescue his people and children. God will rescue this nation from the clutches of people who do not care about those who put them in office. They care about State dinners in foreign lands and not about the welfare of the people that they are supposed to represent. We cannot go on recess until we call the President because the Constitution empowers us to call any person, including the President. He should come here as the Chairperson of the National Security Committee to tell us the actions he is taking to ensure that the cost of living is managed, and the flagrant abuse of human rights and constitutional rights is also stemmed. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we cannot go on recess until the Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee carries out an inquiry on the circumstances that led to the mess of yesterday; until the Committee on Trade, Industrialization and Toursim talks to small- scale traders in Tom Mboya and Ronald Ngala and finds out the extent of losses yesterday; until the Committee on Finance and Budget makes a strong case for the Senate to consider the Finance Bill because it has provisions that relate to county governance; until this House takes a resolution on the basis of Sen. Omtatah’s letter that Parliament means Senate and the National Assembly and the Senate must be involved in provision of budgets for constitutional officers and independent officers as per Article 249 of the Constitution. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if proceed on recess until that date in July, all these things are going to pass and by the time we come back, it will be water under the bridge. We cannot go on recess until the Committee on National Cohesion, Equal Opportunity and National Integration calls all relevant stakeholders to have a conversation on the intergenerational conflict and the intergenerational divide that we are seeing emerging. We cannot go on recess until the security, safety and well-being of the staff of Parliament is guaranteed and assured. If anyone bore the brunt of yesterday's disruption, it was our staff. Our offices were not touched, we were safe in Bunge Tower, but many of these clerks sitting here; their windows were broken, they were shaken, and uniforms of Serjeant-at-Arms were taken away. We are told that the Commission spent Kshs3.2 billion on an advanced security solution. It was tested yesterday. Does it work? We are not going on recess until we get answers to these questions. 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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