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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for finally giving me this chance. From the outset, I support this Bill although I have many reservations not extremely material to the content of this Bill but generally about many things that I will elaborate. Let me put to context my line of thought but I mean no offence to my friends and colleagues who are lawyers. I have a lot of respect for them and some of my best friends are lawyers. However, I have never found a line of profession so self-preserving and self-absorbed as the legal profession. In many of our constitutional commissions, out of the maybe 15 or 16 provisions, you will find that the chairperson must be from a legal background. This is even for commissions that have absolutely no legal work that they do. The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) is a perfect example and we spoke about it here when we were amending the electoral laws earlier on this year. Where they find that it is clearly stated that the chairperson, despite the fact that most of his work is of arithmetic 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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