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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also saw him saying that the money being allocated to the Senate was for Senators to go and hold public rallies anywhere and everywhere. How false can that be? We urge our colleagues in the National Assembly to learn from the follies of history. After every election, 75 per cent of them are thrown out. Many of them are on that highway. They are dancing themselves lame before the main dance comes. When the main dance comes, wananchi will show them the way. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this morning, I took the unusual step of calling the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury, Mr. Henry Rotich. He told me that he had been given the impression by the National Assembly that the Kshs1 billion for the Senate had no rules and structures to govern it and no way of being managed in a manner consistent with the management of public funds. Again, this is a falsehood. This is because there is a Committee in this Senate chaired by Sen. Kiraitu Murungi. The “King of Meru” sitting in this Committee with me and many others has designed rules and has sat with the Director of Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO). They have made it very clear. Looking at this Senate, I do not see any Senator who will put his hand in the till in furtherance of an oversight. I can say without any fear of contradiction, there is no single Senator in this Senate who can be given money to vote in a certain way or make a decision in one way or another. These are distinguished men and women of this country."
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