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    "id": 644390,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I take this opportunity first to congratulate His Excellency the President for performing his constitutional duty of delivering the State of the Nation Address for the third year and, particularly, for sticking to the constitutional requirements in terms of reporting on the progress and implementation of the national values and principles and also matters related to the security of this country. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is very sad that we are discussing matters of values and principles and the President was supposed to speak about the same. However, even before he spoke, our colleagues in the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD) were totally in violation of those values. These values include; respect, public participation, good governance and democracy. It was an insult particularly to the people of Kenya to see Members blowing whistles like small kids in a manner that cannot be explained. It is worst that in the process of doing that, Members who blew the whistles were from only one county and largely from one community. We have been criticised, as the Jubilee Government, for corruption or bias in terms of appointments. However, even in sharing of a whistle alone and protesting, the CORD side could not marshal Members outside one community. To me, it was a terrible embarrassment. I said that in public without hiding. I tweeted that it was a complete disrespect to see Members of Parliament from one community embarrassing the rest of the nation by blowing whistles. I wish Sen. Moses Kajwang was here because he was the lone lost individual in the midst of Members of the National Assembly like hon. Wanga who are already known to have a reputation of that direction. It just happened a few days after I showered a lot of praises on him as being level-headed, only for him to prove me wrong within two days in terms of approach. This is something we must focus on. If Parliament is not the right place to come and debate, give policies and pass laws, then, those who are in Parliament and behave as though they are out there and those who demonstrate inside Parliament with whistles should make a decision to quit Parliament. What is the difference between them and people who voted for them? We were elected to oversight the national Government, debate over such reports and give alternative suggestions and policies but not to whistle. I salute the President for starting with recognition of our soldiers; men and women, who have sacrificed their lives, time, energy and everything to serve this country The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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