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    "id": 661938,
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    "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": " Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I was skeptical when this Bill was first mooted. As time went by, I have been convinced that it is important to have some hygiene and order in public conduct of leaders, how they are addressed and how the pecking order should be. Madam Temporary Speaker, a lot of obscenities have been displayed all over with people over-playing themselves and behaving like they have descended on earth from Mars. That makes things look very convoluted. I have always said that we have a lot of respect for our governors but some of them behave in a manner that is so irritable to everybody. Whenever I am in my county, I see my governor moving around the county with 20 to 25 four wheel drive vehicles on the road with sirens causing all manner of commotion. I can count more than five people that my governor and his motorcade have knocked down and killed because of this madness. They have no remorse or respect whatsoever. Parliament has a duty to bring about public order. Whenever a Cabinet Secretary is passing in town, people are shoved off the road in all manner of recklessness. I hope that when this Bill is passed, it will be enforced so that people can have some decency in how they handle matters. More important to note is the misconduct that we have been seeing from a lady called Ms. Sarah Serem who pretends that she does not know what Parliament does or the work of a Senator. She said that a Senator should be remunerated at the same level as a MCA because she does not understand the work of a Senator. That is either high level ignorance, arrogance or a mix of both that does not help this country at all. When people are given public offices, they have a duty to understand what they are hired to do. If the office of the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) was working together with the Office of the President, we would have been able to have designed this without going through legislation. I fully agree that the pecking order should be as set out in Clause 4; the President, the Deputy President and Speakers of Parliament. However, as the Constitution is designed today, we cannot pretend that our Speaker is equal to that of the National Assembly. If there is a vacuum where the President or the Deputy President are incapacitated or removed from office, the Speaker of the National Assembly takes precedence. Nonetheless, they are Speakers and we should give them that order of precedence. The Chief Justice is the head of the third arm of Government. Therefore, he is rightly placed where he is. He is followed by former Presidents and former prime ministers, Leaders of Majority and Minority, former Vice Presidents and Deputies, the Members of Parliament, Judge of Supreme Court, Judge of Court of Appeal, Judge of High Court, Cabinet Secretaries, Attorney-General, Auditor-General and Principal 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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