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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": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not even know why Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. is so enthusiastic with this Budget Policy Statement and Division of Revenue Bill. We will just pass what the President wants. I am just telling you. We are working so hard to look at the statements, scrutinize and disagree with the figures. We will pass what the President wants because that is what it is at the moment. That is what this House and all the Houses have been reduced to do. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we do not want to lie to ourselves and expend energy that, ultimately, will be wasted in this House when all these things are going to be done. We have to make a determination. We will assist the Executive, the Judiciary and the country if we will stand for issues. However, we will be lying to ourselves if we say: “This group and the other have divided themselves to do this. We are assisting so and so.” Let us not waste time for the citizens of this country. If we will be the Senate that is expected to do its work, we must sit down and agree. I plead that we do this either at a retreat or a kamukunji here and make a determination whether we will be standing together or we will be destroyed severally. That is all I will say. Sometimes the burden you want to carry on behalf of an institution becomes too heavy, but you realise people are cutting political deals behind the scenes to undermine the very institution you want to stand for. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I hope that when the Senate Business Committee (SBC) meets they will consider this serious issue. We need to ask ourselves: How can we be passing Bills here, send them to the National Assembly---Sen. Sakaja rose on a point of order and we shelved the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Bill and two other Bills that we never completed in the last session because we asked ourselves: “Why are our Bills sitting there?” For how long will we be shelving those Bills? We will discuss them here. If the Executive wants them, we will pass them. That is unfortunately the reality that people do not want to face. We can sugarcoat it in all other languages, but ultimately when they want it, we will just come and pass it here. Mr. Speaker, Sir, for how long will Members of this House, most of whom are nominated, work so hard to draft bills, come here and we speak a lot of English only for the Bills to be shelved in the National Assembly that they are money Bills? How did we 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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