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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "work and considerations that need to be made, we have had to reschedule it to the month of October. That being the case, then it means we have to redo our Calendar as has been proposed this afternoon. This is a fairly straightforward matter, but there are two things that I would wish to speak to. I did not get a chance to speak when Sen. Faki spoke earlier on the need for Members to show up in Committee sittings. I wish he had matched his word with his action by staying in the Chamber long enough. I must say this with a very heavy heart, that one of the biggest tragedies of this current Senate, is that it is extremely empty on most afternoons. I have never seen Parliament as empty as it is. I am used to seeing a Senate where people debate and not on points of orders, but on Bills and legislations. That practice has since long disappeared because people have become transactional. They come here, issue statements and disappear. I do not want to name people, but if you see the number of people that bring statements to this House in many afternoons, they consider that to be legislative work. You then wonder who is going to process these statements if everybody was just to come, lay a statement and disappear. Why do people fight so hard to be elected to come to this House, then leave their chairs empty? We must also be serious as a legislature. I listened to people lamenting this afternoon that this is not working, there are issues of labour, education and so on. First of all, begin by transacting that business in this House. This is a premium platform. Millions of Kenyans yearn for the opportunity to sit in the legislature of their Republic. I do not understand this new generation of legislators that we have in this current session. People show up at 2.30 p.m. and by 3.15p.m. you do not see them in the House. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not think that it is for lack of things to do that you find many Members in the Chamber. Look at the experience. For example, Sen. (Dr.) Oburu, the youth leader, is serving his seventh term in Parliament."
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