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    "id": 385988,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to take this opportunity to thank all the Senators who have spoken either in support or in opposition of this Motion. The spirit of parliamentary debate requires Senators and Members to express their views. However, I want to add a rider that the freedom of debate and the freedom of expression should not be misused so that it becomes an opportunity to brag or even to try to intimidate other Senators. I am saying so because I have listened here to some of my colleagues whom I have a lot of respect for, either because of the professional interactions I have had with them in the past or even as citizens of this country. I have interacted with people like Sen. Wetangula, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale and other distinguished Kenyans who have done great things for our country and we are very proud of them. However, I am not going to sit here and be intimidated by any Senator. I am the Senate Majority Leader by right and I do not want to be lectured on how the majority party should conduct its affairs. Mr. Speaker, Sir, that notwithstanding, my respect for everybody is still intact only that we should actually compete in respecting one another and not to demand respect or try to bulldoze your way into dignity. The issue as you have ruled is very simple; whether the names of distinguished Sen. Elachi and Sen. Bule of Tana River can be approved by this House to sit in the Finance, Commerce and Economic Affairs Committee as well as the Implementation Committee respectively. So, I just want to urge honorable Senators to approve those names so that the Committees can proceed with their business. It is not that the committees cannot proceed with business because the rules of quorum are also there, but just to remind us that the issue at hand – as you have guided this House – is not whether my friend, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, should be de-whipped or not because that happened a long time ago in accordance to the law of our country. The Second point I want to make in that connection as a peripheral issue is that unlike what my brother and friend, Sen. Wetangula, has said, what the Jubilee is doing is to promote fidelity to the Constitution of our country and the Political Parties Act which requires every Member to stop the habit of political freelancing and abide by the rules of the parties that have brought them to this House. I want to urge Senators to consider this Motion in its context---"
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