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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": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think this is an important point. I am saying so because I saw a headline in one of the newspapers that parliamentarians want to get five-star food. That was erroneous and that is why I did not want Sen. Cherargei to fit into that lie out there. It is important for the public, because they are watching, to know that all parliamentarians pay for the food they eat while in Parliament. We sign for that food which means we pay for it. When Members of Parliament (MPs) demand from members of the Catering Department that food must be quality, because it is expensive, it is not because they are asking for an extra pay from the taxpayer. They mean Parliament can save a lot of resources from MPs and visitors who come to Parliament, who would otherwise go and eat elsewhere, to eat in Parliament if food was as quality as it should be because of the payments they make. The reason I stood on a point of order is to stop this narrative that fits into the argument that when MPs demand quality services from their own staff, the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) and the Catering Department, it has to do with lack of quality in other areas. I am saying this because one of my constituents called me after they read the article in the newspapers and they asked whether it is true that we are asking for five- star hotel kind of food. When I explained to them that every food served in Parliament is paid for from our own salaries, they were satisfied. To avoid that misrepresentation, having answered such questions to my constituents, I stood to request my colleague not to fit into that kind of narrative."
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