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    "speaker_name": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "(Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki): Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, just one last point with your indulgence. Before I read my Statement, I request colleagues to cooperate for the remaining few months. We have done a good job. We are the first House under this dispensation. We need to lay a good foundation. We have done our best. The time left is short. However I think we can still improve on what has been happening. Having said that, it is now my pleasure to issue the Statement on the Business of the next week which starts on 21st February, 2017. BUSINESS FOR THE WEEK COMMENCING TUESDAY, 21ST FEBRUARY Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this being the first weekly Statement during this year, kindly allow me to wish you all a belated Happy New Year. I hope you had restful and enjoyable holidays. We have come back at a sad moment having lost one of our friends and colleague, the late Sen. Boy Juma Boy, the Senator for Kwale County who we laid to rest on Monday, 13th February, 2017. We shall miss our departed Senator, brother, Sen. Boy Juma Boy. I welcome all of us back from the recess. During this last Session of our term, we will spend a very short period of time here. Subject to the House calendar which the House will approve possibly next week, it is expected that we might have to adjourn sometimes in early June, Sine Die. It will be impractical to run normally. We have to proceed on recess Sine Die until the elections. Under the new Constitution, unlike in the past, the current Constitution does not envisage the dissolution of Parliament. Therefore, we will remain in office until 8th August, 2017. However, for practical purposes, it will be suggested, subject to the approval by the House, that around early June, we give Senators an opportunity to interact with citizens as we also enter the homestretch of campaigns for the next general elections. That is a matter that the House has to deal with next week when the proposed calendar will be presented to us. We also anticipate there will be small breaks even before early June to accommodate certain activities including---"
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