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    "id": 756454,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Kamar",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 33,
        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank you for giving me an opportunity to support this Motion of Adjournment. Before I make my remarks, I thank the people of Uasin Gishu County for giving me the opportunity to be their second Senator. I also thank the two counties that gave us two women Senators; Nakuru and Isiolo counties. This is history in the making. We appreciate. It then means that we do not only have nominated women in this House but we have elected women as well who will vote on their own rights. I support this Motion of Adjournment because of the importance of capacity building. I have been humbled as a professor over time that you do not know until you are taught. I appeal to our colleagues on the other side whom we are told that they are watching us on television that they should come for this capacity building. It is very important that we move together as a House. If we do not get capacity building at the same time, we will still have people dragging behind. We heard a lot of stories out there before we came to this Senate, that this is a House of elders where there are no rules. That should be a thing of the past. We believe that those of our colleagues who have come back should be leading the rest. We are ready to follow. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we should all speak from the same page. Let us all understand the role of Senators and the relationship between Senators and county assemblies. I have been doing capacity building in the last four years. I believe that it is only capacity building that will build relationships between Senators and governors and a working relationship between Senators and MCAs. As the President said the other day, this"
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