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    "id": 916670,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I am impressed that this House has decided to take the higher ground by not responding in the same tone to the juvenile rants that we earlier had. It would be infra dig for this House to sound like the other House on this matter. This House has distinguished itself as a House of sobriety and reason. That is why this country has a lot of confidence and faith in the quality of our discussions. The quality of debate in the other House is low because they only speak for two or three minutes. A Member of that House can request to speak on a particular Motion just for the Speaker to get to them when they are on a different Motion that they were not prepared to speak on. Let us remain to be the House that has seasoned arguments and proper debate. The assertion that CSs should not come to the Senate is nonsensical. On behalf of the other Chairpersons, I want to say that we will continue inviting the CSs. Article 152 of the Constitution is clear. The CSs are supposed to appear before select Committees of this House on matters that concern this country. A CS friend of mine told me that it is easy for them to appear before the National Assembly Committees, but they have to do a lot of preparation before facing a Committee of this House because the Senators ask serious questions. They know that our secretariat does proper research and they also have to prepare. We will continue calling them for discussions. We will continue playing our role as Senators. The National Assembly has become an appendage of the Executive. There is no oversight being done in this country. In this House, we do agree on issues on a bipartisan nature and play our oversight role without fear or favour. I always tell my colleagues in Jubilee that I was the Chairman of the ruling party and a Member of Parliament when I was in the National Assembly, but still played the oversight role. If you do love your party, you will be the first person to point out a mistake and you will also be the one blowing the trumpet at the mountain tops when your party do well. We should go to court to get the clarifications. We shall protect devolution. I sat in the Mediation Committee that looked at the Division of Revenue Bill and the patronising attitude of the National Assembly that came out clearly was unfortunate. The thinking that one is doing a favour by sending money to counties is false. The The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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