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    "id": 839377,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have no doubt with my experience and the knowledge I have in this House. If there is anyone who is supposed to defend Cabinet Secretaries it is me because they come from the Majority side. For the best interest of this country, we cannot start saying as a House that we will not be questioning Cabinet Secretaries, when they are running a docket. Tomorrow, it will be Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., raising an issue about another docket in a Government Ministry. I am just saying that when a Cabinet Secretary is running a docket of the position that is dealing with matters of minority groups like the people who are in the Gallery, we have the opportunity here, to pontify and enjoy the debate. There are people who are sleeping outside, whose houses have been burnt. You were a District Commissioner in Marakwet and you know how people used to suffer in Embobut Forest. There is one thing I will never stop saying, anything involving the suffering of the people in Embobut or any squatter in this country, is personal and emotional to me. As a leader, if I get an opportunity to come and sit in this House and defend them, I will defend them whatever the cost. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we, as leaders, are in a position of privilege. We must speak for those who are weak and down-trodden. I hope the Committee that will be given this responsibility will take it seriously. We have not said that we will not protect the forests and the environment. However, when we deal with the protection of the environment, it must be done in a manner that will not hurt our people. This is because it is the same Government that has the power to move people who live in a particular area to another area and ensure that they are settled. Even if that is the case, why would you want to punish small children who are less than 18 years? Why would you want to punish school going children for the sins of their fathers, assuming that they live in a particular area? Why would people want to subject people to live in deplorable conditions? We, as a nation, must rise up to the occasion. The Cabinet Secretary (CS) in that Ministry must also rise to the occasion. This is not a matter of the Ministry of 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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