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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I strongly object to some of these insinuations that somehow ODM is the one running this Panel. If you read the newspapers today, you would think that there is a war between me and Sen. Wambua. It will not happen. Sen. Wambua and I will never fight. The truth of the matter is that we also do not want these incessant accusations against ODM. If you hear the names of the constituencies by-elections that are being mentioned, the majority of them are held by ODM. The ODM is holding Ugunja, Magarini and we have a nominee to Cabinet. There is a young man from Kajiado waiting to replace hon. John Mbadi in the National Assembly. If anything, we are the ones who are suffering the greatest prejudice. I have asked Sen. Wambua to distance himself and his party from some of these non-entities making noise. You know very well that they cannot field a candidate in Banisa. They are village political parties. I do not know what, Sen. Wambua, you are doing with these characters. I want to dissuade you from hanging out with these people, because if you just moved a bit, you would allow me to deal with these people mundu khu mundu. They know me and I do not want you to catch strays as we say in the streets. Madam Temporary Speaker, some of the reasons these people have given are that time is too short because they shortlisted 116 people. I personally took time to watch one of those interviews. I am being vindicated because I said, these panelists are talking too much. They like to listen to themselves. Instead of putting questions to candidates and allowing them to talk, somebody is asking a winding, long question. After complaining that they are talking too much, they write to me to extend time, so that we can listen to them more. We do not want to hear what you have to say. We want the candidates, the people who are coming to run elections to speak so that we can know what they are all about. Even if I am persuaded, please, the sort of contempt that is being extended to this Senate will not be allowed to go on any further. Dr. Makanda should have known that there are two Houses of Parliament. He is a PhD. holder, for heaven's sake. He should have written to our Speaker and written to the Speaker of the National Assembly on 20th and we would have had time to debate this Motion and give him what he wants. I thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker."
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