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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, let me start by congratulating the Senators who have demonstrated a lot of commitment and passion towards this Bill. Allow me to, in fact, congratulate the minority side. At the time I was moving this Bill, there was no indication that any of them would have come to the House and even if they did, that they were going to debate. We can now assume by conduct that the minority side are now going to participate in legislation in the House. They are back in full swing. They have made robust opposing remarks to this Motion which is exactly why we wanted them here. I also look forward to having them for another two weeks to come and debate on the Bill. Secondly, when I was moving this Bill, I gave an opportunity to the minority side to give us the four names so that we can amend the Motion. We have waited for two hours. I have conversed and tried to persuade the minority side to leave their hard-line position, which has become a signature position for their political outfit, to give us four names so that we can amend the Motion and include them. There are some issues that were raised by Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri from IPPG to Serena talks. There were also issues that have been raised by Sen. Madzayo. There are also the mass action issues that Sen. Outa alluded to which can be part and parcel of the process and considerations of the Senate. I have seen most of my colleagues in the minority side talking about the desire to go to mass action. You cannot have spent so much money and time to campaign and when the opportunity comes to be a Senator, you say that this is not the right forum and resort to mass action. You can allow those who voted for you to do the mass action. However, you can take this very enviable opportunity and change something meaningfully on the Floor of the House. I want to convince my friend, Sen. Outa, who has been my friend for a long time that he needs to quickly get used to the “upper” House because here, we do things in a very orderly manner. We do not pour water on ourselves. There is no fighting here and we are ready to listen to every idea. I said this when I was moving the Motion, that the majority side and being the leader on this other side, we are willing to listen to everybody to ensure that this Bill is amended and put in the right version so that we can have a peaceful country. Thirdly, my colleagues on the minority side are so worried about the tyranny of numbers. The reason why they are here is because of numbers. If there was no tyranny of numbers in their counties – they took the tyranny of numbers – they would actually be languishing in their villages. The men and the women whom you defeated back home are actually crying about tyranny of numbers because that is the definition of democracy."
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