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    "id": 1519048,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Okiya Omtatah",
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    "content": "happening defy logic, defy any attempt at understanding them and can only happen outside the sphere of a well-constructed syllogism. It is with a very heavy heart that today, I stand in this august House as a powerless legislator; a House that has failed to have any impact on the Executive; a House that has got absolutely nothing to write home about its achievements; absolutely nothing. Even if you gave them the back of a postage stamp and a felt pen, they would not fill with any achievement we have had in terms of checking the Executive. We do not understand the insignia on our desks here; Deputy Minority Whip, Minority Whip Majority Whip and the Senate Majority Leader whatever which was a clear statement that this House is not an extension of the Executive. We would be having a Government side and an opposition side if the Executive in this country was directly elected by the people to be accountable to this House. The structure of the Constitution is such that the president must be lobbying and begging this House to allow him to do what he wants to do. If it is appointments, they come to Parliament for clearance be it in the National Assembly or here. If it is the Budget, it comes to Parliament for approval. However, things have been turned on their head. Today, it is MPs kneeling before the President instead of it being the other way around. So I am very ashamed and embarrassed that I belong to a Parliament that is totally incapacitated for reasons that I do not know. Everything has been turned on its head. As a result, the Executive behaves like it is a law upon itself. That is why the Janjaweed can be given an office in Nairobi at the whims of an individual and claim that the people of Kenya have welcomed the Janjaweed to come and run its genocidal government from Nairobi. It is extremely sad. I plead with my fellow MPs in the Senate and the National Assembly; Senators and Assemblymen and women---"
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