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    "id": 522844,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, first of all, you are not functus officio on this matter. You never at any one time said that you were making a ruling with finality. We know you as a Speaker with a clear but flexible mind. You are capable of giving way to new issues as they arise. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is steps and processes like this that killed the first Senate in this country; by slowly but surely making it look like a second Chamber. It became irrelevant until it was done away with. It is the small bits and pieces that nibble away the stone. I want to encourage you to be a precedent making Speaker; that even after we have all gone, either by old age, attrition or wananchi telling us to go out of this Chamber, you will be remembered as a precedent setting Speaker. That the Inspector-General (IG) must be vetted within 14 days is neither here nor there. In fact, the gentleman was nominated about two months ago. If the two Speakers desired to have resolutions to have a Joint Committee, we would have done so. We can be recalled. We were recalled when we were on recess. We are just demonstrating our fidelity to our Standing Orders, law and Constitution. Mr. Speaker, Sir, listening to some of the divergent opinions which my colleagues are entitled to, you can see some feat of impatience and irritation; that we are wasting time or standing in the way of an appointment. Nobody here has any personal interest in the nominees to this position. If he is vetted and found fit to hold office, we will say that we have an IG who will serve the whole country. This country has serious challenges that need very careful steps in arriving at who is going to be our next IG. I would not want to encourage this House to start wishing away, even the little that the Constitution has given us, and subordinate ourselves to the National Assembly. It will not be right. Mr. Speaker, Sir, let me finish by pointing out that we as a House and the Committee chaired by the distinguished Senator for Garissa, who is now resting his eyes, reserve to observe the Constitution, law and Standing Orders and say: If it has been given to the National Assembly to vet, let them vet. Then, the challenges will follow in the 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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