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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Omulele",
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        "legal_name": "Christopher Omulele",
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    "content": "On the whole, I support the idea of forming this society. However, I want to challenge my brothers and sisters in this House, and those who have the honour of carrying the aspirations of Kenyans in legislation--- Our people have honoured us by bestowing upon us the title of “honourable Members” the moment we are elected and come to this House. It is my belief that dignity and respect can never be legislated on. Dignity and respect must emanate from us from the way we carry out our duties and the mandate that our people have given us in this House. We must carry out this duty in a way that will give honour to the titles that we carry. This brings me straight to the question that has arisen from all the submissions that have been made in this House; all the Members who have submitted before me have said that the society seems to disregard and hold in disrepute all the Members and the former Members of this House. We must ask ourselves: Where did the rain start beating us? In other countries, people who have served in positions such as the ones that we serve in are held in very high esteem. Why is it opposite in our country? We must ask ourselves this question. This question can only be answered by us. Probably, it is because of the way we carry out the duties that we have been asked to carry out by our people. We seem to have a lot of self-importance in carrying out these duties and not humbling ourselves sufficiently, so that the society looks at us as people who have come to this House and carried out a duty in the humblest and the best way in which it could have been carried out. We must understand that we are constantly in the eyes of the public when we are in these positions. Our people are always looking at the way we conduct ourselves. After we come out of this House, our people will have an institutional memory of the way we conducted ourselves. That is why they seem not to be willing to re-employ us, or consider us for other positions in the society. This must come back to us; the way we conduct ourselves must come back to us. In supporting the establishment of this society, today, probably, we have the solution to all this. First, we must humble ourselves. However, the Parliamentary Service Commission has a role to play in this starting today, probably by setting up a parliamentary institute for training of Members, so that we can be trained in the best way to carry out our duties."
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