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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": "The Chairman of the Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations is here, and there were other processes of finding a solution--- That report is very important and we can make it a Motion thereafter to debate the issue. Secondly, there should be no struggle with our colleague, Sen. Mwaruma, whether he is representing the county assembly or county executive; he represents both them. The practice has been from our former colleagues who have had this situation come from their counties - and I want you to sit with some of them – that they have taken a passive role, including even abstaining from voting. This is just to ensure that both sides of the county find a solution in what they are dealing with. I agree entirely with Sen. Orengo and Sen. Wetangula, among others, that we must not use the jurisdiction, integrity and mandate of this House; we cannot mortgage it to achieve short-term political interests of assisting this or that. When it comes to our mandate, jurisdiction and responsibility--- I am very grateful to the Members of the Senate Business Committee (SBC) because that was the discussion in the SBC. The most important issue is to take a route that safeguards the integrity of the Senate and Parliament itself. When history will be written, it will be said that we stuck to the fidelity of the law and also the integrity of the institution and its history. We are talking about ourselves here. It looks like it is a small matter, but 10 years down the line, Senators who will be standing here will be going back to that history and ask themselves, when were court orders. That is why, respectfully, even if someone was to now go and get another order to come and injunct the Parliament process, I still respectfully submit that the Senate must go through all its processes and make a finding. Since we are not passionately interested in the removal of the Governor or safeguarding him to be there; ours is just to ensure that we have worked on the process and the truth. Then, if the courts out there say that the final product of the Senate is not acceptable under the Constitution and the law, so be it. There are many other orders that have been issued not just against us, but against products of this House and the National Assembly, which is the law and reports. Reports have been expunged, laws have been declared unconstitutional and so forth. What is important is for us to be faithful to the process and the mandate of this House."
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