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    "id": 922196,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mwaura",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, sorry, I was caught off-guard talking to my dear senior sister; maybe even mother, Sen. Mugo. It is good to acknowledge when you have a senior Member. Madam Temporary Speaker, I rise to support this Division of Revenue Bill and to say unapologetically that the boisterous nature in which the National Assembly is conducting itself belongs to the 20th Century. They must wake up to the reality that we have a new constitutional dispensation that is anchored on bicameralism. This idea of thinking that they can just go and hoodwink the Executive because of the National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF), which I dare say on the Floor of the House that it is unconstitutional. The Executive must not think that by bribing the National Assembly, we in the Senate are going to abrogate our role to superintend over the affairs of counties. We would want to give notice to the Executive that from now henceforth, it is not going to be business as usual. We truly appreciate that the Presidency has never seen the inside of Senate but that should not make them to imagine that the Senate does not exist. Today we have made history and we are not going to relent. For those other institutions that are out there thinking that this is the usual war between the two Houses of Parliament, I want to read a quote here by Martin Niemöller who said - “First, they came for the communists, but I was a communist. So, I did not speak out. Then they came for the socialists, but I was not---\""
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