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    "id": 715786,
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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": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will avoid the unnecessary polemics; I will go to the real issues. First, I want to urge you in the ruling that you have made; given the issues surrounding this matter of elections, that perhaps you should consider making reference of this matter not only to the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights but the Committee on Information and Technology as well so that they can sit together. Some of the intricate issues that we are seeing being pushed forward and backwards are ICT issues. The Committee on ICT chaired by the able Senator for Nyeri who has never veered off the track of good behaviour can also enrich the process. Having said that, let me go back to the point where I left when I was interrupted. This morning you made a very sound direction that Parliament has not invited and does not need police to cordon it off or picket. What happened in the National Assembly and the events that followed have raised the tension in the country. The moment a matter is brought to Parliament, and you come in the morning and find some weird looking gadgets barricading the road at the Basilica and at Harambee Avenue Round About, making it difficult even for Members of this House to drive here; out there the ordinary man thinks and believes that there is something tragically wrong going on in Parliament. You made that directive. We laud you because it was a direction of courage."
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