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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Njoroge",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ben Njoroge",
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    "content": "Thank you Mr. Speaker, Sir. As we prepare ourselves to deliberate on the Bills coming from the National Assembly, there is a Bill which in the year 2014 was passionately deliberated and passed by this House. Members were too passionate with the Persons with Disabilities Amendment Bill and up to date, I have never heard of that Bill. I wonder whether it got lost on the way to the National Assembly or it still exists in the hands of the National Assembly. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wonder why Bills are coming to this House from the National Assembly and yet our Bills are buried somewhere in the National Assembly. Can that appetite be there in this House to discuss Bills coming from the National Assembly yet ours are regulated by the National Assembly? I, therefore, wonder whether the same message is relayed to the National Assembly Speaker in order for him to come out openly and tell us whether there is a tray where they dump the Bills coming from the Senate because it is very unfortunate that they can ignore and wish away our Bills. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you know persons with disability had high hope when we deliberated on that Bill which was passed here. I remember the turnout was almost 80 per cent and we have never heard of this Bill at any other time from the National Assembly. I, therefore, wish to say time has come for us to sit down and discuss with the National Assembly before we go further because our Bills are as equally important as their Bills. Thank you."
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