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    "id": 419977,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to support this Motion and if there was any doubt in the minds of the members of the public especially the media that this Senate is not working well with the Lower House, then this is evidence that we are working very well. This is the new spirit whereby the Speaker of the National Assembly having read and interpreted Article 127(b) that one man and one woman appointed by Parliament, he has correctly allowed the procedure to be concluded at the Lower House and referred the matter to this House and because they unanimously supported this particular Motion, I feel that it is a calling for us also in the same spirit to unanimously support it. Mr. Temporary Speaker, if anyone wanted to know the history of these two young appointees, I am privileged to have grown up with both of them. I first knew Lona Mutoro before she got married to Mumelo as a sixth form student at Lugulu High School when I was a sixth form student at Kakamega High School. I met the young lady when I was also a young man at Kakamega High School in a Mathematics club meeting of A – Level students of the then Western Province. We continued sharing as distinguished students in our region because she was studying Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics and I was studying Mathematics, Chemistry and Biology. She went on and studied education at the University of Nairobi while I was studying medicine. We have grown up with her and she went on and became a principal. She has taught in several schools in my county Kakamega before she went to teach in Bungoma, her home county and eventually to the University of Masinde Muliro and later on at Shanzu Teachers Training College where she is a distinguished dean of students. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I would therefore, based on the history that I grew up with her, have no reason why I would not encourage my colleagues here from supporting her to become a member of our Parliamentary Service Commission. On the other hand, Dr. Ali was two years my junior at the medical school. When he came to the medical school, Dr. Ali found me in second year and we studied with him for all those many years that people stay in medical school. We went on and joined the Kenya Medical Association. We have done a lot together as doctors of medicine. More The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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