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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "( c ) The leader of the minority party.” So, you must give an interpretation, whether from your chair or the Courts, of what Article 107 and Article 108 mean for this House. If we take it lightly that this is a drama and a joke that the former Minority side is doing to the former Majority side, then we are not serving the nation. It is my understanding and my view of those two Articles that the moment the National Assembly Speaker has pronounced himself or herself, given the context of Article 107, in which the Majority party or the Majority coalition is one side, then that applies to the Senate. I am saying this because Election Day is when those majority or minority parties are determined. There is no other election after we are seated in this House. Therefore, this question of some post-election coalitions that have come here and there, some of them we have not seen any documentation to their effect. I urge you to help us to criticise, question, interrogate and engage with court orders. I saw the Nominated Senator, Sen. Gloria, contributing to this House, yet, there was a court order that came based on a decision that was made by this House that Sen. Gloria be suspended for six months. I understand that she might have gone and appealed against that court order. However, it needs to be communicated to the House. If it is not communicated, then she is a stranger in the House. When the Speaker sits and then ignores those court orders, ignores a stranger being in the House, without communicating to us, how are we running the House? These are the issues that I hope that the Senate Business Committee will look at, and let us engage with these court matters. Not only engage with them, but do so on time so that we can interpret and engage with these court orders. Otherwise, I am looking forward to a very vibrant session. I hope that we make our country better by working together and agreeing to disagree, to move Kenya forward. I thank you."
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