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    "id": 994772,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
        "slug": "james-orengo"
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also want to congratulate Sen. (Prof.) Kamar for being elected as the Deputy Speaker. She comes to this office with a wealth of experience and knowledge. She is a distinguished Professor. She has taught many people and even employed many people including in this House, in academia and other fields of scholarship. She has been a Cabinet Minister; a Member of the National Assembly and she is a Senator right now and also in the Speaker’s panel. Theretofore, I really want to appreciate this election. In a field in which you were to go to an election, it would have been a very difficult moment. However, the team that wanted to vie for election beginning from Sen. Mwaura, Sen. Madzayo and Sen. Pareno; I think it was quite a field of colleagues. The honour you have been given by these other Senators withdrawing their candidature for you, speaks volumes to Sen. (Prof.) Kamar and to this Senate. I just wish to add this; Sen. (Prof.) Kamar has had to make very difficult decisions in her life. I know that during the Constitution making process, she stood above local politics to support the enactment of this Constitution. I remember going to Kericho with the former President Mwai Kibaki, Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka and Prime Minister Raila Odinga then. Were it not for Sen. (Prof.) Kamar, enacting the Constitution that we have, in certain areas where there were difficulties, it would have been extremely difficult. Now that you are elected at this historical moment--- yesterday we heard speeches about a historical moment, I think it speaks volumes of the task that faces you ahead together with Hon. Lusaka, our Speaker. Finally, I want to finish by saying this, in Kenya’s politics, there is one syndrome that is disturbing many of us, which gladly Sen. (Prof.) Kamar does not suffer from. This is the syndrome that Martin Luther King Junior described as the drum major instinct; which means the desire to be number one. I think Sen. (Prof.) Kamar, in your life, you have always been number one by becoming number last. You emerged from the bottom of the field because you never had this drum major instinct. When we gather anywhere as politicians and there is a camera around, you can see us stampede to be on the front row. I can assure you that Sen. (Prof.) Kamar would normally be at the back waiting for a chance and if she does not get it, she will always bid for her time. So, I hope that those who have this instinct, the burden of unbridled ambition, will control it during this phase in Kenya that we are entering into, so that 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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