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    "id": 646638,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to congratulate my colleagues for being here yesterday and today to ensure that we pass these two important Bills. There is a myth being used by enemies of this House that every time there is a critical Bill concerning national interest and that there is a deadline on something, this House is unable to meet the deadline or there is lack of commitment in this House to ensure that legislation is passed on time. Sen. Haji was here by 8.00 p.m. waiting for the gate to be opened. He is one of the elders of this nation and a Senator who is committed to lead and ensure that we pass Bills for the national interest to be achieved. Therefore, those who have been peddling lies must be told that this House has denied itself the chance of an adjournment to go to Meru so that they can focus on serious legislation. We have also committed ourselves to come this morning to meet this deadline. You can see almost everybody is here to vote. Therefore, that myth must come to an end. I want to quote Hon. Ababu Namwamba who spoke yesterday. This juvenile tendencies where every time there is something to strengthen the other House, one House behaves in a manner that is demeaning. That must come to the end. I watched the debate in the National Assembly and it is still that of yesteryears. The country has moved on. This nation wants mature leadership. They want leaders to partner and perform. I hope that this kind of working relation between us and the National Assembly will pass the right message that we are co-joined and we are supposed to be responsible with whatever powers we have been given to serve the people and not to stifle others from performing their responsibility. I have no doubt that reasonable Members of the National Assembly will ensure that they facilitate the judiciary, the Executive, the county governments and the Senate to perform their functions through allocation of resources. That power is given to them by the people of Kenya for them to play a certain role on their behalf; just like all of us here have certain powers which they do not have so that we can make use of them for the benefit of the nation."
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