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    "id": 991975,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you. I appreciate the decision that you are about to make. However, this is extremely unfortunate. These are extraordinary times. It calls upon you to stand firm and be the Speaker that this House elected you to be; to arbitrate, be fair, firm, and resolute in defence of this institution. I have information in my possession, and would wish to know---. It would be proper, before the Speaker communicates such a decision, that this House is furnished with the alleged minutes of the meeting, showing who were present and who signed. This is because we have supplied your office this morning with a list of 20 Senators from the Jubilee Party that have signed and said they were not party to that meeting. Mr. Speaker, Sir, first, Jubilee Party has 34 Senators in this House. We only have a coalition agreement with the Party of Development and Reforms (PDR), and that makes it 35. If 20 Senators sent a letter to your office this morning urging and reminding you that they were never party to these changes, then where did these numbers that are allegedly being used to make these changes come from? Secondly, I am aware that you are also in possession of a letter from the Whip of the Majority side, informing you of a court order that was issued this morning. They were interim orders from the PPDT informing you of the fact that the decision that was made to enter KANU and Jubilee Party into a post-election coalition is null and void and stayed because it was unprocedural. Mr. Speaker, Sir, how you choose to treat this information is out there for history to remember; that at such a time as this, when the country was faced with such serious pandemic as we are dealing with, people sat somewhere, made forgeries and we are about to sanction it as a House. We will go down so badly. I plead with you, as you make your decision, to tell us the truth about what happened. Establish for us who attended this meeting. Who are these alleged 20 Senators that met? They should also tell us why there is contravention of Standing Order No.19(4) that directs that it is the Whip of majority side who writes to you. We would wish to see that letter by Sen. Kihika informing you of these changes."
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