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    "id": 991991,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am not worried and I have no problem not being the Senate Majority Leader. What was being defended on this side was the fact that we must follow the rules. Be it as it may, if you will finally disregard the law and make a decision that I am not going to be the Senate Majority Leader in this House, I want to thank my colleagues who voted for me, supported me throughout and who have continued having faith in me even amidst a lot of intimidation from the Executive. Secondly is to thank the six or seven staff of the Office of the Senate Majority Leader. At the moment, the only people that are in my mind are my staff, it is not me. I know that they have done a tremendous job. They have loans and commitments to their families. However, this afternoon, they are going to lose their jobs by a stroke of political conmanship. So, I really feel for them. I want to thank them for their support. I will stand by them as a person. I have just started my political life. I have only been in politics for seven years. I believe that this is just, but the morning of my political career. There will be a brighter future. They should take heart because we will come back big. They must continue looking forward to that great future. Lastly, during this time of the Coronavirus, we were told that not more than 15 people should meet yet we were told yesterday that about 20 people met at the State House to plot how to remove Mr. Murkomen from the position of the Senate Majority Leader. The only agenda for our Jubilee Party has been wrangles from 2018 up to now and not focusing on delivery of services. If the greatest achievement of the President of Kenya is to demonstrate to the people of this country that “I have removed my Senate Majority Leader and I am a big man---” The President is already a big man. I am just, but the son of a squatter, born and brought up in Embobut. To be the subject of his discussion over and over again--- I want now tell him: “Therefore, Mr. President deliver for the people of Kenya because Mr. Murkomen is out of the way. If I was your stumbling block, deliver for the people of Kenya.” Mr. Speaker, Sir, allow all the Bills that have been signed unconstitutionally, and which this House went to court to challenge to come to the Senate. I want to tell the President “Stop lying to the Senate. You told us that you will give us oversight fund. Bring the oversight fund to the Senate if Murkomen was the stumbling block.” It is only---"
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