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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "the Majority Party who has asked you to do something. I want you to do something today in this House. We are 349 Members in this House. We are too many to eat in any restaurant. We told Members to keep their visitors away. There is no cooking that can cater for 400 Members and their guests on a daily basis. When you go to eat in the Members restaurant, you find a Member with half of his constituency sitting there which is against the rules. The Sergeant-at-Arms cannot touch them. We have even appealed to the Clerk. When we were in high school, we used to rush to be number one in the line, so that we could get what we used to call “top layer”. So, when other Members are still in the Chamber deliberating, others are already eating there with their constituents against our rules. So, these other Members get the residue. Hon. Speaker, help us. If you want good food, obey the rules of the game. Respect the Sergeant-at-Arms. The Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) which you the Speaker chairs has to do something which this Committee has been talking about. My colleague, Hon. Waititu, has tried to raise it. This House, under your chairmanship, cannot keep making people work for us as casuals. The whole country and the world know that Parliament of Kenya is one of the best employers. I fear going there because those employees keep saying: “ Mheshimiwa, help us, help us.” The work of employment is for PSC. We cannot have people working for ten years as casuals. What is worrying, and which the Hon. Member was bringing out, is that those casuals there are now worried because they are told that PSC last week employed other people to take their jobs. Hon. Speaker, some of those people have been here for over five to seven years. We must absorb them. This is very important. If it is a rumour, that will be good. I asked a Commissioner on their behalf and he told me that we did not give them their names. It is not our duty. We are an oversight Committee. PSC must do certain things. As you deal with Members of this Committee, also deal with Members of your Commission. This is because there are some things that we are going to bring out about the PSC when we come back in February, which will surprise Members. They must work. You cannot work alone. The PSC is supposed to help you work. On a simple thing like employing people-- - You do not expect a casual to cook good food for seven years. Train them. In fact, they should be going for those benchmarking trips and not us. They are complaining to us and we are not getting any action from the PSC. You must help us. I agree with the Leader of the Majority Party that you must help, because it is within your right and mandate so that Members in their welfare are peaceful and happy. Lastly, in and around Parliament, there are now people who behave like they are security personnel in orange jackets. They are frustrating our security and we do not know them. It would be nice to know who these people in orange jackets are."
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