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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I am saying, for a long time we have played and fiddled around this matter because if you read the last two committee reports of the Senate Committee on Finance and Budget, we have raised our concerns about this issue. I think we also need to save the Senate from ourselves; Senators, because we are not so keen on how we do our work. We started raising this matter more than two years ago but up to date, nothing has been done. That is why I agree and see the wisdom in the proposal by Sen. Wetangula that this matter should be canvassed at a Committee of the Whole so that all the 67 Senators can get the chance to question the CS and the Council of Governors as well. I do not buy this story that Governors signed the contract under duress. Let them show us the video clip where guns were held to their heads for them to sign. It is a fake story; let them come and tell us the truth. If you have been elected as a governor of a county and one million people have put their lives into your hands and given you executive powers, you cannot just come back and say ‗I signed under duress.‘ I think time has come for us to show whether we are real as the proper ―Upper House‖ in this country as we pride ourselves or we just want to be like our infamous colleagues who were rumoured to have taken some money somewhere. If we do not solve this issue, I dare say, this House will never redeem itself in any other matter forthwith. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I join my colleagues in requesting that you summon the CS. I do not even want to go into the details about whether this is a scandal or not. I just have one plea; summon the CS and the Governors before a Committee of the Whole. After all, Article 189(4) gives us the powers to arbitrate where there is dispute between the national Government and county governments."
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