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    "id": 1442855,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "why the Senate of the Republic of Kenya is seated this morning is that we had a session yesterday in the afternoon where we sat down as a Senate of the Republic of Kenya, off camera and not in this Chamber. We sat somewhere together and reasoned. We asked ourselves what it is that we can make as our contribution. We are deeply embarrassed that it has taken young children to point to us that we are naked as their leaders. It is extremely troubling. As I listened to many of the leaders yesterday in the afternoon as they shared their experiences regarding what transpired in the last few weeks, I realized that we are in extraordinary times and ordinary solutions that we proposed in the past cannot work this time. Unless we are serious, genuine, honest or mean it, let us not begin this conversation in this House this morning. I would wish to put it on record that I come 100 per cent willing and committed, standing before the Senate and the Republic of Kenya, knowing very well that one way or the other, I have made a contribution. I am ready to be persuaded and led jointly, first of all, by the leaders that are here and by what we are being told by the people that are speaking in the public spaces and the conversation that is going on in the country on what we need to do to redeem and win back our country. This is so that people can reflect back. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have come up with this Motion. This Motion is just but the beginning of guiding the country towards solutions. We would wish to make a certain number of requests to you as our leader, together with the office of the Clerk that is here; that as Members will be speaking, let it be known that many of them will take time to paint the state of the nation. That is why we have titled this Motion; “The State of the Nation.” As it is, with no filters or embarrassments; pointing and saying things as they are. That this is what is wrong, this is what we hear and spend the remainder or the later part of their conversation in proposing solutions. There are those that we can do within us as Senate. There are those that we can do as a legislature, which is the National Assembly and us. There are things and solutions that we are being asked for changes to be made at the level of the Executive. We will make the recommendation. There are those that constitutionally mandated institutions have to do. We have to interact with them and guide on how they will do them. As I have already pointed out, these are not normal times. Normal solutions will not get us out of this problem at this particular time. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the request that we are making to you is that you get us staffers of Parliament who, as Members speak, will classify all these challenges that we are speaking to, and cluster them into the various thematic areas, so that we deal. We are ready and willing to work, whatever time, over and above the call of duty, beyond even 6.30 p.m., if that is what it will take because unfortunately, we do not have time. That is the other issue that young people are telling us. That is what I hear when I listen to what the country is saying. We are willing and ready to work, so that we classify all these challenges and the various solutions that we are prescribing. Some of them have been suggested by other people outside the precincts of this House. 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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