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    "id": 814442,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wamatangi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 646,
        "legal_name": "Paul Kimani Wamatangi",
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    "content": "Kindly protect me from the Senate Majority Leader. He wants to put words in my mouth. Sometime back, when retired President Daniel Arap Moi was visiting Limuru Town in my county, there was a lot of agitation for him to name a Vice President. He had deliberately chosen to keep tight and quiet. However, when the agitation became too much for him, he spoke in Kiswahili language and this is what he told them. “ Ikiwanitampatia kazi kama naibu wa Rais hiyo itaongeza ugali kwa meza, basi nitampatia .” What one would be asking himself is whether if the money Bills or the other Bills were not coming to the Senate, itaweza kuongeza ugali kwa meza ya nani kule chini? Three weeks ago, I was one of the Senators who stood here to reintroduce a very important Bill that had been debated and passed by this House. It was supposed to help this country when we were going for elections for it was on the Assumption of Power by Governors in their offices. We passed it and it went to the National Assembly. However, it has never seen the light of the day. The then Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Devolution and Planning needed to do was plagiarize it to borrow words from Sen. Wetangula and lift part of it to help this country to go to the elections. It was before the National Assembly, we went for elections and came back and I had to reintroduce it. I am one of those Members who participated in passing those 32 Bills in this House. I had another Bill on Small and Micro Enterprises which is supposed to help traders in this country by making the trading environment better for them. However, it “died” in the National Assembly. I also had a Bill on Road Furniture, which faced the same fate. 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."
}