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    "speaker_name": "Kitui South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Racheal Nyamai",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Ken Chonga Kiti",
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    "content": "I note that the Parliament of Kenya is 114 years old since its inception during the colonial time. Many people have served in this House. Therefore, the history of the institution of Parliament needs to be documented. I thank the Leader of the Majority Party because he is focusing on the National Assembly. Since he is the one who has come up with the initiative, I think the Senate can catch up with us later or they can find a way of embracing this important initiative since they have also done a lot for this country in the 10 years they have been in existence. As the Members who have spoken before me have said, including Hon. Masara, as we identify the nine Members, it is important to give priority to those who have been here for a while. They are the ones who may have the memory of what used to happen. They should take advantage of the digital error where a lot has been done in the last about 15 years and should be documented. I see an opportunity where the work that has been done in this House through representation, legislation and oversight being documented and used by our younger generations to even come up with investment where they could use platforms like YouTube and Tik Tok to showcase what has been going on in this Parliament. There is a lot of information sharing that goes on in this House. Just as my colleagues have said, I would not like the violence to be documented. There is a lot that the young people of this country can document. I would also like to say that they will not be re-inventing the wheel because as I look at this Motion, I realize that there are other Parliaments that have already done it. So, most likely, the Committee will be looking at what other Parliaments have been able to do and try to be innovative to relate it with the case of Kenya. All in all, the situation in this country is that there has been a lot of monitoring and evaluation going on in Ministries and semi-autonomous agencies and parastatals thus warranting the establishment of a department of monitoring and evaluation in various institutions. Therefore, I would like to suggest that this is something that the proposed committee can also identify as an opportunity where they can establish a fully-fledged department that checks on what goes on every day with a view to identifying what is interesting so that it can be documented and at the end of the life of each Parliament – at a time like now – they can just put that information together. This may not be the best time to come up with the proposed committee. I support that it happens as quickly as today. In the future, they can make a decision to have the committee in place a year earlier so that members can have adequate time and be in the right frame of mind because this is something that requires time. I know that at a time like now, six seven months before the general election, is not a good time to constitute the proposed committee. Even the kind of Members being targeted by this Motion, like Hon. Shaban, Hon. Jimmy Angwenyi, Hon. Keynan and others, who have been elected to this House three terms or more, would be in a much better state to deal with this important matter if it had been brought up much earlier. Future Parliaments, especially the 13th Parliament, will have a lot of information to be documented. This is a time we have experienced COVID-19. I hope in the future we will not be in a situation like this. It will be useful to document how the leadership of this House, comprising of our very own Speaker, Hon. J.B. Muturi and other leaders of Parliament, became innovative to ensure that Parliament conducted its mandate without being stopped by COVID-19. I hope this will be documented, showing what Parliament has had to do to ensure that its work did not stop because of a pandemic. I believe Parliament never looked this beautiful many years ago. I have actually seen photos of people like Hon. Kalonzo Musyoka, Hon. Charity Ngilu and a former Member called Hon. Mwangu seated in this House on benches. As my colleagues have said, this needs to be documented The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}