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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): Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I will be brief. I have listened with great admiration to the various contributions that have been made by my colleagues this afternoon. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to start by thanking the Committee for doing a good job because in the tradition of this House on the matter of impeachment and even on other matters that we have had to deal with, we have relied overwhelmingly on the trust, confidence and expertise that our Committees have displayed. So, I want to go on record as thanking every Member of this Committee; those who supported the majority report and those who supported the minority report because we are not here as robots. If you are not careful, we might push this bipartisan thing in the wrong direction. The reason we are here is because every Senator has a right to arrive at a conclusion so long as you justify why you have arrived at that conclusion. So, I am grateful to every Member; those who supported and even those who dissented. Having said so, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to agree also with Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. that this is an apex body for devolution and we have a lot of work to do in the coming months and years. The only small area I disagree with him is when he says that this is like the House of Lords in the UK; and that when we make a decision, it is followed in the village. With due respect to him, that is not true. In the House of Lords in Great Britain, colleagues, that House is both a House of Parliament and it is a court of law. In our Constitution, the Senate of the Republic of Kenya is not a court of law; it is a House of Parliament. So, that difference needs to be brought out. Thirdly, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to say that I heard my brother, the Senate Minority Leader while he was contributing saying “Oh, we are a quasi-judicial institution;” that is also not true. This is not a tribunal; this is not the Liquor Licensing Board. This is the Senate of the Republic of Kenya. We are Senators!"
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