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    "id": 984389,
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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": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will be very brief. I appreciate my colleagues who have made great contributions. Unfortunately, I know so many of them here, including those who did not make it to this Chamber, who would have wanted to say something about this important Bill. Sadly, time is what it is. I thank you, Mr. Speaker, for managing this session. Second is to insist that we, as the Senate, will continue to do our job. I have seen some misguided personalities elsewhere assert that because money Bills are tabled in the National Assembly; or that they have contributed in subverting Article 110 of the Constitution by denying this House its constitutional responsibility to process certain Bills, they have suddenly become the big men. That is an inferiority complex syndrome that people must be told as it is because we have been called upon to serve. That is what we are doing. We came here to serve. We did not come here to ask ourselves who is greater than the other among us. The Bible says the one who serves the least of this is the greatest of them all. I am glad that from 2013, we set the right tone. We came to this House and decided to be servants of the people. We have gone through so many Bills because of our faithfulness to service. Sen. (Dr.) Zani had a fantastic Bill here and over 100 other Bills that went to sleep in the National Assembly. However, it never deterred us from doing the job we need to do. I am glad the comments that came from Sen. Sakaja, Sen. Orengo, Sen. Cheruiyot, Sen. Wetangula and both sides of the political divide, demonstrate a House that is ready to carry on the journey for the remaining two years and ensure they remain faithful to their calling. We have achieved a lot qualitatively. If all the necessary Bills came to this House, this country would be better than the disservice the National Assembly has caused, by going to rubberstamp decisions that come from the Executive as they are. They are a total disservice."
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