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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I should gift Sen. (Prof.) Tom Ojienda. I want to appeal to Sen. Tabitha Mutinda to accept that because we are very proud of the professor. Professor, the work you did in court was a study in the practice of law. There are jibes that you threw. Two young lawyers in my family, that is my daughter Vivian and my son Sonista, were very happy because of how you conducted yourself in court. Of course, you brought us the right to recite. Congratulations. I want to speak to the problem of nominations. As stated earlier by my colleagues, nominations must cease being the decision of political party leaders. Members of political parties must vote to decide on the party list, so that, for example, after members of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Party have voted on names of all the people who want to be nominated Senators, women who get the highest number of votes should be put on the party list in the order of the number of votes they got, so that it is not the decision of the political party leader. You can see the misguided contribution of the Senator for Nandi, suggesting that party leaders conduct nominations from hotel rooms. I am surprised that he was not forced to apologise and withdraw. We have Distinguished Senators here. They include people like Sen. Beatrice Ogola and Sen. Tabitha Mutinda who have families. What message are we sending to their families that they were nominated from hotel rooms? Shame on Sen. Cherarkey! He even imputed further improper motives on male Senators like Sen. Chimera. Is he suggesting that they or their party leaders are homosexuals? It is unbelievable that we can degenerate to that level. I have said it before, and I want to repeat. Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) should vote to decide who should represent them and not the decision of political party leaders. I also believe that we should continue amending the laws to ensure that women representatives are elected not universally in the county, but by fellow women because it is only women who know the best women who should represent them. If they do not want them to be women representatives, then we should amend the Constitution not to call them The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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