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    "id": 545510,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " That was a very callous answer; that she does not know what you do and what you are. Do you believe that? I believe she voted for a Senator from the county she comes from. This kind of arrogance and demeaning attitude towards the Senate is what informs the fact that instead of living on the basis of benevolence from arrogant State officers, the Senate must take its own destiny, drive it and make its work effective. We are not doing this for this Senate; we are doing this for posterity. After Sen. Murungi, there will be another Senator in Meru. After Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo, there will be another Senator in West Pokot. We must lay a foundation that those who come after us find institutions that we have built. You know the famous song by Bruce Springsteen, that “we built this city.” We will one day stand out there and say “we built this Senate.” Those for whom we are building; our grandchildren, children and competitors will come here and find a Senate worth being a Senator in. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, at some point, we will, probably, add some clauses so that even the personnel that help us in the Senate are taken care of by the Senate itself. We need the Senate to have a say as to what quality of personnel we require. What happens today is that anybody that the National Assembly does not want, they shift them to the Senate and so on, and so forth. That is not very good. We want the Senate to be empowered to work. 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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