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    "id": 402098,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murungi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 93,
        "legal_name": "Kiraitu Murungi",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you look at the national days, we are not attending them as Senators because no provision is made for us and, you know, you cannot go to push and shove in order to get somewhere to sit. I think the time has come for us to request, through the Senate Majority Leader – who is the de facto Prime Minister – to talk to the people in protocol so that arrangements can be made for Senators to sit at a designated area when we go to Nyayo Stadium or Uhuru Park during the national days. Like now, we are going to have the 50th Anniversary of our Independence; in 1963, Sen. G.G. Kariuki here was a Member of Parliament, and he should be one of the people we should be celebrating with these Jubilee celebrations. Therefore, people like him should be sitting somewhere near the front because, I think, he is Senator Number One. But the way things are, he might go there and find he has no seat, and it will be very embarrassing! So, I think this protocol which is being proposed in this Bill has been very well thought out and I think we should all support it. Nobody has any doubt that the President leads the pack, followed by the Deputy President, the Chief Justice, the Speaker of the Senate, then the Speaker of the National Assembly, then the Cabinet Secretaries, the Attorney-General, the Senators, Governors, Members of Parliament, the Speakers of County Assemblies and Members of the County Assemblies. I think this protocol is very well thought out and I would like to support it."
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