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    "id": 959514,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, to my colleagues, particularly on the Senate Minority side, I want you to go, and before you do, think about the story of Saul becoming Paul in the story of the road to Damascus. The people who agreed with us inevitably in all Mediation Committees since the year 2014, were the Members of the Opposition in the National Assembly. This is the problem of “handshake”. This time round the “handshake” has caused the Members of Opposition to behave like finance ministers of government. Most insults came from Members of the Minority side to which I belong. I sat there in shame because I do not have the talent of insulting people. I do not know how to do it, since to do so you do not use your brain. I do not know what one uses to insult people. I do not know what part of one’s brain or body causes them to hurl insults like a child in front of television and be so happy and sleep well at night. I do not know how to do it. Perhaps that is the reason I did not like politics. Madam Temporary Speaker, for the future, it was going to be a tragedy to go to Kitui and workers are on strike because they have no salaries and we have spent Kshs50 million or 60 million out of the impugned Appropriation Act signed by Uhuru Kenyatta, where we have been given salaries. It is such a contradiction. Please Members, search your souls to think that what is good for the goose must be good for the gander. The person who voted for you is sleeping hungry while you get your night and sitting allowance et cetera. That does not mean that Kshs316 Billion is fair. I said that the President should not have gotten involved in this matter by making a pronouncement when it was our work. I repeat that statement; it was not right. However, in the future and through the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI), I hope we can resolve the crisis in Articles 218 and 221 of the Constitution, and then, Sen. M. Kajwang and your Committee, we want you to hang three governors for us."
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