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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I join my colleagues in condemning the kind of barricading I have seen around Parliament. This must be contextualized. I think it is easy for us, politicians and Parliamentarians and those who have privileged positions to shift blame to others, but we must also ask ourselves what visited us as elected leaders that we could engage ourselves in such behavior that would attract the necessity of having policemen around Parliament. This is not the first time I have been shocked about this. The other week when the National Assembly had a Special Sitting, the whole place around Parliament was impossible to operate in. In fact, it was impossible for us to access our offices. Looking at the context, we are elected, called hon. Members but we carry pepper sprays to spray others in the Chamber . We carry knives as we were told. We carry hot pilipili to Parliament. We carry whistles. In fact, the last time whistles were carried to Parliament, a Member of this House was part of it. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to be very honest; we must first condemn ourselves before we talk about the police. We must condemn our behaviour as leaders. If you see a leader insulting another in a language that Sen. Wetangula called un-Parliamentary, for example, calling the Head of State “a fool” and using other unprintable words within Parliament, I think we must---. As we condemn the action visited upon us by police being in our precincts, we should condemn ourselves and our actions as parliamentarians."
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