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    "speaker_name": "The Deputy Speaker",
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    "content": "Order, Senate Majority Leader! Order, Senate Minority Leader! I am trying to assist your work and you are busy sabotaging the umpire. Hon. Senators, it is true that we are looking very bad in terms of processing Bills. We have three more speakers left. Instead of the technicalities of reducing time, I would just ask you to be brief so that we conclude and see whether we can process one or two other items. I am afraid because I can even see some Motions which the Speaker has deferred. An example is the Motion by Sen. M. Kajwang’. I am not trying to interfere with the ruling given by the Speaker earlier, but if the performance of this House on Bills and Motions will be like this, where in 2019 we will still be looking at the accounts for the Financial Year 2013/2014, we will become irrelevant and obsolete in this country. That is how we lose face in the eyes of the public. Having said so, I will use Standing Order No.1 and direct that the three Members who have not spoken, after Sen. Mwaruma concludes his remarks –Sen. M. Kajwang’, Sen. Wambua and Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. – will each have about three or four minutes. We will thereafter conclude and see whether we can do a few other items. Next week, a significant number of this House will be away, meaning that there is very little that we can do. However, if we can push a few more Bills and Motions and, at least, be left with Divisions, the situation will not be as aggravated as it is now. That is the order of the Speaker. Sen. Mwaruma, you may conclude; Sen. M. Kajwang’, Sen. Wambua and Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. will have a few minutes each, and that will be it. I will not allow any other interventions."
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