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    "speaker_name": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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    "content": "(Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki): Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, thank you for bailing me out. The Senator for Kakamega is a good legislator who knows how to perpetuate debate. I even wonder why all of a sudden he has lost interest in this House to go and do other things. However, that is within his democratic rights. For his information, in Law School, they taught us that one pronounces Latin as it is written and writes it as it is pronounced. Therefore, the adjournment will be Sine Die, not the way he pronounced it. He tried to “Englishnize” it. The adjournment will be determined by the proposals that the Business Committee will forward. We will table these before this House, most likely on Tuesday, for ratification. Days when the Executive kept secret cards over Parliamentary calendar are gone forever. Even as we amend the Constitution in the next Parliamentary term, we will not touch that bit on the independence of the Legislature. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Hon. Senators, we expect some interruptions even before early June depending on the date that we agree to adjourn. This is to accommodate a number of important events that fall in between. Just to exemplify, we have the oncoming Annual Devolution Conference. A decision has to be made on our participation. If it is our decision that we participate, we will need to adjourn for one or two days to be able to attend the final Devolution Conference for this term. We also have the Annual Legislative Summit which is likely to take a day or two. However, most importantly, we have the political party primaries. The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has already released the electoral calendar. Between 13th to 25th April, 2017 political parties are supposed to conduct party primaries. Those of us who live in this country and understand the politics of this country know that party primaries are mini general elections. If one comes from some corner which I will not mention and is not a candidate of party ‘X’, they can as well kiss Parliament or the County Assembly goodbye. Therefore, it is very critical. One cannot expect us to be here speaking a lot of English when our seats are at stake. We cannot be here moving procedural Motions and we are being hammered left, right and center back in the village. We anticipate party primaries and such events will interrupt us. I am explaining all this because we really need to work extremely hard. The discussion we had earlier, although punctuated with light moments, must inform our resolve to work harder, perhaps smarter than the preceding years to ensure we maximize the time we have in our hands. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, contrary to some of the contributions which were made here, we have a lot of pending business; some of it is Government business, for example, the Division of Revenue Bill has been read the first time today. We must The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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