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    "content": "have seen in this Senate. There are times when we try to censure ourselves; that probably somebody is not going to appreciate what I am going to say or I am going to be censured. Even now, the Senator for Kericho County was saying that ‘I hope what I am going to say will not run afoul of the Senate Majority Leader’. We should never make our Members feel like that. The Standing Orders always stop us from discussing the President’s personal conduct but we cannot run away from commenting on his official conduct. Therefore, if a Chairperson of a Committee is not working properly, we are not talking about a Senator, we are talking about a Chair which can be occupied by anybody. Therefore, Sen. Mwaura did not even talk about the Chair. He was just making a statement which, when you have a mind that is negative, you infer that he is talking about the personal conduct of the Chairperson. For the future to work for us, for us to be effective and in the spirit that we have in this Senate, the biggest thing that I think is lending favour to us vis-a-vis the public is that we are mature and we talk sense. However, at the end of the day, I get a feeling that whenever we stand up to speak, some people look behind thinking that probably someone will not like what I am saying. I think that there are people like the Senator for Nairobi City County who have overcome that thing and he tries to speak from his mind. Sen. Mwaura does the same. I think that the ladies in this House are doing much better than men. I appeal to the Senate Majority Leader to let us have a vibrant House and only not stop people from speaking when they get into conduct which may be considered to be juvenile or not becoming of elders. With those few remarks, I support."
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