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    "id": 616983,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "I will come to the point of the distinguished Senator talking to you in a short while. I and my colleagues pray that you rule that we are not in a position to transact the business of the House in view of the unreasonable short notice we were given. The reason the Water Bill was stepped down last time was because of the objections that we needed to look at in greater detail. In a promise I made to this House, my research team is working on amendments that I intend to place before the Committee. The Chairperson of the Committee, the Senator for Embu County, reached out to me and proposed that we discuss the amendments I intend to bring. The Chair that presided over the Committee allowed me to prepare my amendments. My research assistant is busy working on those amendments on my direction. Today, within a notice of under 12 hours, we are sitting here to deal with the same matter, completely oblivious of the fact that the same Chair had allowed me to prepare amendments and bring them without giving me a deadline or timeline. Mr. Speaker, Sir, let me come to the matter of the distinguished “former” Senator for Kericho. We all stood here and congratulated my good friend, “former” Sen. Keter. We wish him well in his new assignment. The distinguished “former” Senator has been vetted and there is a 411 message to the effect that his vetting has gone through. The message reads:- “Seven Cabinet Secretaries nominees approved by the National Assembly Committees on Appointments.” Once again congratulations, “former” Senator for that approval. We wish you well and I am sure you will do a good job for this country. But that notwithstanding, this House now is not properly constituted because the distinguished “former” Senator for Kericho is a stranger. The Constitution and our Standing Orders do not allow you to preside over a House in which strangers are seated. We are in a very strict presidential system. The Executive is divorced from the Legislature and vice-versa. Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki cannot go and sit in the Cabinet---"
}