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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": "the national Government institutions. That will mean that the Council of Governors can always nominate people at any given time. We can even say that the nomination of the person who is going to sit in that place must have consideration of counties where oil production is being done or transported. That is something that we can consider when we are drafting, such that it will not be too confined, but it will be wide enough to allow more people to serve in that Committee of the Council of Governors. It will also not be too wide to allow any Tom, Dick and Harry to sit in that Committee. These are things that we must work on because neither the Chairperson of the Committee nor myself would be happy for the Senate to just rubber stamp legislation yet we have the brains that can contribute for the betterment of the country. We have no other country to call Sen. Murkomen‟s country, the majority‟s country or the minority‟s country. This is our country. You can be in the majority today and be in the minority tomorrow. That is why this is a House of equity. I agree with everybody who has said that we need to look at the powers of the Cabinet Secretary vis-a-vis the authority and the representation of the authority vis-a-vis the county governments. It is a foregone conclusion that we will not agree but there is one thing that we must all agree on as a Senate. We need the law. That is rule number one because where we come from is worse than where we are going in terms of the law. Of course, we do not want to say, bora sheria . We must also say sheria bora . We should not say it must be just law but it must be good law so that then the contributions we make become very valid in facilitating the way forward."
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