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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Do you always notice that as soon as the distinguished Senator for Elgeyo-Marakwet walks into the Chamber, there is total disorder all the time? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, while I support this mediated version, it will always be good for the people we sent to mediation to come here and explain the reason or the rationale for arriving at what they arrived at. This is because I do not see Sen. Kivuti here - Sen. Chelule has just walked in - or those who went for mediation. I have failed to understand why, for example, the new Clause (9), and I have discussed this with a few colleagues including the Majority Leader, a conviction of a criminal offence and imprisonment for a term exceeding six months. We must always qualify what kind of offence we are talking about. If somebody, for example, Mr. Speaker is convicted of an affray and convicted and sent to jail for six months, how on earth does that disqualify you from sitting on a board about forests? I cannot understand this. Under the new Constitution, we have even said clearly and rightly so that prisons now are not for punishment but for correction; they are correctional services. So if you have been taken to prison and you have been corrected, why would you be denied an opportunity to sit on a Board about forests? In any case, we have convicted criminals elected to Parliament, to the Senate and all over. How would we deny people an opportunity to sit in the boards? I do not think this is a good law. As the Majority Leader has said, we have to rethink about these things and probably bring amendments to the law in the future. We have all manner of people who have transgressed the law. The other day, you saw a Minister hounded out of office for theft, running around the streets with young people and is now headed towards becoming 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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