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    "speaker_name": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "(Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki): Madam Temporary Speaker, with regard to the first one, as I said, the former Prime Minister is a good friend of mine despite the fact that we do not agree politically at the moment. That word, “moment” is deliberate because two years ago, the kinds of political alignments that were there are very different from what we have today. That can even change in the future. The earlier Kenyans realise this better. Former President Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga were not President and Vice President, respectively. They were co-principals in a Grand Coalition Government. During that time, there may have been difficulties. However, I am sure that there are many things that the former Prime Minister did not agree with, but he protested loudly. I did not hear him protesting about some of the things being protested here today. That as may be, there is something we call reverse discrimination. I do not think that any Kenyan should be ashamed of holding public office simply because they come from a particular tribe. If this is about balancing ethnicity in our public sector, the law is very clear. The Constitution provides for that. In this Parliament, we have Committees of National Cohesion which can address this."
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