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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will use three minutes or less. I would like to congratulate Sen. (Prof.) Kamar, for this momentous election as a Deputy Speaker of this House. I will not repeat what other Members have said, but it is an opportunity for you and the Speaker to get the bearings of this Senate back to where it was. I hope that the act of some of colleagues withdrawing from this contest is an act of showing that all of us can work together. I hope that the Majority Side can be magnanimous enough to the Minority Side so that we can offer leadership from both sides of the House; particularly, in the constitutional dispensation that is coming up. As we consider these changes, we want to see a little more give and take in terms of leadership of this House. Sen. (Prof.) Kamar might not speak as loudly as some of us speak and might not shout on top of her lungs like a lot of people speak from our counties and regions. I agree with Sen. Orengo that Sen. (Prof.) Kamar has distinguished herself as a leader. In fact, a few of us can hold a candle to her, because if you look for something in Sen. (Prof.) Kamar that would divide this Senate or this country, not a single statement has been made, either earlier or in this dispensation. Sen. (Prof.) Kamar, we are counting on you to offer that sort of leadership where all of us speak with one voice and return the stature of the Senate to a true Upper House in act and deed."
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