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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I was seated next to Sen. Lesuuda, yourself and the said culprit. Everybody who sat around there was shocked yesterday. That happened despite the fact that you came to mourn the death of the father of the Deputy Majority Whip. I personally notified the Governor of Machakos that he had the responsibility to invite you to pass your condolences. He deliberately ignored you. It was not your condolences; it was on behalf of the Senate. The murmurs I heard from the Governor for Machakos was to the effect that you were too junior for him to invite you. I spoke yesterday and everybody heard. I reminded the country that one of the greatest challenges of devolution is that, power has entered into the heads of those who have been given the responsibility to manage our counties. They think that they are bigger than everybody else, but yesterday was about mourning. It was necessary for you to pass our condolences on behalf of this House. That is why all of us spoke on behalf of ourselves, but left the responsibility to you to pass the message of the Senate of the Republic of Kenya. I concur with Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale. That, whereas we have accepted as a Senate to be a House of humility; the circumstances under which you were given a total blackout yesterday – I must congratulate you because you behaved very maturely as you have always done. You did not sulk and did not look discouraged. You stood firm. However, those of us who were behind you were very sad. You saw me walking to the stage, to tell the Speaker of the Senate to just wave. I want to say without any fear of contradiction, a Governor who has been running a cinema in the county; thinks that he can transfer that cinema mentality to everybody in this country, is an unfortunate thing. It is an embarrassment to the family of devolved governments. It is important for us to have an official position of what happened yesterday. If nothing, it is for the record."
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