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    "id": 729335,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kembi-Gitura",
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        "legal_name": "James Kembi Gitura",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, on a point of order. The most important thing in this House is that we must, as you correctly say, maintain decorum. When the Leader of Minority, on HANSARD, says that, “there is dictatorship in the Senate and this is connivance between the Speaker and his deputy.” That is on record. Are you going to allow it to go on record; that you and I are conniving to create dictatorship in the House, a Senator refers to another one and specifically to myself as intolerant just because I raised a point of order? Are you going to allow that to go on record? How is it that the Leader of the Minority can be allowed to get away with so much? How is it that he can stand up in the Senate of the Republic of Kenya and refer to you and your deputy as people perpetuating dictatorship in the Senate and you allow it to go on record? I do not think so. With the greatest respect, I do not think so. This amounts to gross misconduct under Standing Order No.110. This calls for sanctions. I am the Deputy Speaker of this House; humbly and very privileged to be the Deputy Speaker of this House and elected by Members of this House. If following the rules that are in the Standing Orders is dictatorship because somebody is not getting what they want; because somebody has that attitude about being entitled so they can use the House to hurl insults at other Senators? I do not think so. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is such a serious issue; you, as a Speaker, duly elected and your deputy, duly elected, are said to perpetuate dictatorship in the House because somebody does not want to be challenged in what they say. I did not at any point ask anybody to praise the Speech of the President. We appreciate. I have also been in this House and discussed presidential addresses since I was in the Ninth Parliament. It does not give and should not give anybody a sense of entitlement because they claim to have been here longer than others or because they are the Leaders of Minority. These are positions we hold in trust and these are positions we need to give respect to. It cannot be possible that a Leader of Minority would use that position to use derogatory language against other people and expect to get away with it. It is not and cannot be allowed. Where has there been transgression in interpreting the Standing Orders in saying that at Standing Order No. 94 requires apology, substantiation? If it does not forth come, then a withdrawal and apology. We always do it in the House. Is it dictatorship? Mr. Speaker, Sir, Sen. Wako has been very reasonable; it is a question of arithmetic. Go and bring that arithmetic and show the House that what the President said 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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