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    "id": 729351,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " The only thing that touched me is that the Standing Orders give me time to speak. I have eight thingsthat I wanted to critique in the President’s Speech and I did not even finish two. I am very fond of standing on points of order all the time. Normally, you do not give me chance like four or five times in a row. You would give me one, then deny me and give me another chance later. I appreciate that because I am not the only Member in the House. I want to reaffirm my great respect for the Chair, for you personally and for my distinguished learned senior, Sen. Kembi-Gitura. I have no issues with him. When we come here, we are not a parliamentary system. The parliamentary system would require the President or his nominee, called the Leader of Government Business, to sit in the House and answer blow by blow on matters touching on Government. In the current situation, the President comes only once to give a treatise of the state of the nation that he is leading and what his Government is doing to Parliament. It is then upon us, as leaders, to come and say that the President was right here but he was not right here. I have points where I was going to agree with the President on certain issues. I started with the points where I do not agree with him. My distinguished colleagues, who I do not know what gallery they are playing to, could not hear me criticize the President. They could not hear me criticize the Government nor could they hear me do anything. I want us to respect each other. I want us to debate issues in this House with decorum as it has been said. You used to see Martin Shikuku or better still, Mwai Kibaki, in the previous Parliament where we were with you. When I came to Parliament, hon. Mwai Kibaki was the leader of the opposite side of Government and he used to debate. He used language and facts stronger than I would ever do in this House and everybody listened to him. He would pick a budget statement and spend three hours because then there was no time limit. He would shred the budget speech from A to Z and dismiss it as a fallacy. He would dismiss the President as a sham, then he would walk out and go have his cup of tea. Nobody would interrupt him. 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"
}