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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": ".: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale for being graceful in victory. Very few Senators who have been ranked as high as he has would have complained. I am just concerned that we are being set up for a trap and I think we are falling for it. You know that the work that we are doing in the Senate cannot be achieved at the individual level. So, it is just impossible to have that sort of ranking on the work that you do at the Senate, unless they rank you when you are sitting in the Chair and sanctioning us for not complying with the Standing Orders. On my part, I must declare that I was put at No. 22. I do not want to complain about it because I do not know how somebody would pick a piece of paper and ask somebody on phone how I am doing my work at the Senate. I am not bothered too much about it. What bothers me is that Senators are going to be driven to a corner where they will be pursuing personal issues like Sen. (Dr.) Machage says, and which would make them popular. That way, we will then lose focus on the work that we are supposed to do as the Senate where we are supposed to sit in committees and pass or scrutinize legislation and do the work that Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale is doing for example, in his Committee. Therefore, we would lose the point if we start chasing small rainbows. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the law is in place. I would have preferred possibly a Motion which seeks to ask the question that where there is no compliance, we seek for questions on why there is non-compliance. That would help us because the sort of sanctions that Sen. Abdirahman is seeking are most likely not provided in the law. We would then fall into the trap where everybody who is annoyed with the Fourth Estate just seeks to sanction them or gag them. Again, it is a trap and we cannot fall into it. We must say that the information that you published does not comply with the law. It May be that the report that you summarized cannot be blamed on the person who wrote the report because, maybe, he does not know what the law requires as Sen.(Dr.) Khalwale has so ably put it. What was the sample? May be our work is to ask for the sample and that report so that we can analyze it in great detail and see whether there were some violations. 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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