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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. With your permission, I am rising to reiterate the issue of our Bills lying on the shelves in the National Assembly. There is something wrong with the leadership of this House right from the Speaker up to the least endowed position in the leadership of this House. Let me give you an example of one annoying Bill. The distinguished for Meru, Sen. Murungi, brought here an amendment Bill to amend the Parliamentary Service Commission Act so that it could give force of law to the Oversight Fund of this Senate. The Bill went to the National Assembly and it is sitting on the shelves. When the leadership of this House found that that Bill was being sat on, they approached Sen. Murungi who looked for another route through the Rules and Regulations. What was easier was for Speaker Ethuro to sit with the leadership of the National Assembly and demand that that business be dispensed with or accept defeat and have a new process of Rules and Regulations started. We are literally begging for that fund when we could have amended the Parliamentary Service Commission Act to give it substantive force instead of hiding in some little things called Rules and Regulations. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there is something wrong with this House and my regret is that Sen. Sang who has distinguished himself in four short years to be a major legislator will be going to serve as the governor of Nandi. Otherwise, I would have preferred him to be here as Senator when I am serving as governor in Kakamega so that he oversights me."
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