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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. For your information, when I talked about “a Member of the Lower House,” it was not a Member of this House who had actually said what I referred to. As a country, we must learn the spirit of servant hood. In future, I hope that our brothers – who decided not to coming when the President was addressing the Parliament – will also learn from the conduct of the President and realize that if you are servants of the people you have a responsibility. Even if you oppose a particular thing, this is the right forum to appear and oppose if you do not agree. There is something that people must not confuse in this country; the sovereignty and the love for our country with the hate of the government of the day. I could be sitting there and, perhaps, you do not like me to sit at the Speaker’s Chair, but one must respect that seat and the office that, that office holder has. In future, we need to advise – although I can say this without fear of contradiction – that we never missed anybody in that House; we were full and we were many. It was not recognizable who was missing except that they had announced that they will miss. So, I took time to look for Sen. Hassan, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, Sen. Wetangula and they were not in the Chamber. I noticed that they were actually becoming a fraud to their own voters because the voters want them to be here, listen to what the President said and debate it. Then, the same people now come and pretend that they are debating the same Speech in this House. Why did they boycott the Speech? You cannot tell us that you are boycotting when the President is reading his Speech but then come later to debate something that you did not want to listen to."
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