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    "id": 601452,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kembi-Gitura",
    "speaker_title": "The Deputy Speaker",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 242,
        "legal_name": "James Kembi Gitura",
        "slug": "kembi-gitura"
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    "content": " This is not an issue I wish to protract. The point has been made and I do not think by entertaining more points of order, we will help the situation. The Senate Minority Leader, the Senate Deputy Majority Leader and Sen. Obure have all put it clearly the need to take the business of the House seriously. By the time we went to the Committee of the Whole, there were enough delegations but when we came back, we had inadequate numbers. We would have finished with this issue but it appears that progress has been reported and that will have to remain at that. You are here and I cannot tell you how badly you have done because it will be castigating the wrong persons. We must take the business of the House seriously. Otherwise, as you noticed, the next four or five orders on the Order Paper will have to be deferred because they are divisions and it will be futile to vote when there is no threshold to vote. The point is well taken. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I hear you well on the issue and I appreciate what you have said but that is the situation we have found ourselves in and there is nothing the Chair can do. It is an issue of whipping. I saw Sen. Keter doing everything he could to get the numbers in the House. He did well and I must commend that. I saw other Members from the minority side making every effort to whip. When it is done, we appreciate but unfortunately, we have not reached the threshold and we have to leave it at that for now."
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