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    "content": "Such is a day where if you are the hidden shujaa, janga kuu limetokea, lazima ujitokeze uonekane kama shujaa. One would expect you, as our Speaker, to suspend this Sitting and demand that the Executive withdraws the cordon of Parliament for us to conduct our affairs freely and openly. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Kenyans know that even at the most vibrancy of debates in this House, there is not a single Senator who has ever poured water on each other, there is not a single Senator who folded his fist on another, there is not a single Senator who has sprayed a chemical on the face of another, there is not a single Senator who has opened his mouth to bite another Senator or used unprintable words on the Floor of this House. Even those Senators who sometimes veer off from the path of decorum, it is still within the acceptable parameters of parliamentary debate. For you, as the Speaker of this House, on a day such as this, all editorials in the newspapers for the last four days have been saying that the whole country is looking at the Senate and the Speaker of the Senate, to bring down the temperatures of the country. We then come here and it looks like it is a military garrison. It looks like we are in a state of war and conflict. This is not how to conduct business. We want to speak without fear and we shall not speak in fear. I encourage Members. I laud young Sen. Sang, the distinguished Senator for Nandi, for being the only Senator across the floor to join issue with what Senators Dr. Khalwale, Ong’era and others have said."
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