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    "id": 751068,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Melly",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Kipkemboi Melly",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this opportunity to share a few remarks as we come to the end of this Senate. This is one of the Houses that has had a number of challenges. When I try to see the far that we have come, it took the hand of God. I thank God and the people of Uasin Gishu County for giving me an opportunity to serve as their first Senator and to God, again, for his grace that we have life until this day. I want to thank Members who I cannot mention with whom we worked in different committees such as the Committee on Information and Technology, the Standing Committee on Land and Natural Resources, the Joint Committee on National Cohesion & Equal Opportunity and Sen. (Dr.) Zani with whom we worked together in a small department: The Senate Sports Club. It was only for one year and I want to thank her for that. If God gives us time in future, I know we will be able to do more. The challenges that this House went through are many but I just want to single out the fact that I do not feel that we did our job in terms of oversight. Today even if I am asked how much I did as the Senator of Uasin Gishu county in terms of oversight, I would not be able to account because we all know the challenges we went through which were right from the National Assembly. Three times we fought to have money for oversight which we did not get. I want to believe that the incoming Senate will not go through the challenges we went through. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, a number of us will be coming back to the Senate. Some will go to the National Assembly, a good number will be governors and a small number will retire. I want to wish all of them well. For those who will be coming back to this House as Senators, I urge you to continue fighting for the Senate. As I leave the Senate I do not think we have done much of what we were supposed to do. However, keep up the fight. One day, even if some of us will not be here, we will celebrate somewhere else when we will finally have a Senate that will truly represent our people and oversight the billions of shillings that we allocate to county governments."
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