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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. There are some light moments this afternoon. So, I want to comment on the road carnages. If you go to a country like Tanzania, our neighbour, people are more disciplined. If the speed limit is 50 kilometers per hour, you will see people observing the set speed limit. If you must stop at the Zebra crossing, people stop. So, I do not know what is happening with our culture. When hon. Michuki was the Cabinet Secretary then and came up with a raft of measures which we all obeyed, speed governors and safety belts were installed in vehicles. These are things the Cabinet Secretary for Transport needs to go back and ensure that we go back to those good old days of hon. Michuki because accidents dropped drastically then. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "It is unfortunate that we lost 11 students the other day from my former Kenyatta University. We also lost a student and a driver from Kapsabet Boys. We lost other people in Silibwet. We need to reflect as a country. The National Transport and Safety Authority needs to sit down, come up with policies or revise the same policies and those who flout the rules, let them face the law. I was in Arusha recently and I could see a boda boda rider having a helmet and carrying one passenger. However, here in Kenya, you will see six or seven youths in one"
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"content": "and none of them including the rider are wearing helmets. We need to change as a country, so that we do not lose young lives. On behalf of the people of Elgeiyo-Marakwet County, I want to send my sincere condolences to all those who are bereaved during this difficult time. I have an interest in Kilifi and the Senator for Kilifi has just walked out. I wanted to find out from him; I hope he has not been affected by what Sen. Faki has said. I hope he is still safe and doing his normal duties in the evening because I am told the clinker is affecting manhood. Maybe that is the reason in recent years, it looks like the population for Kilifi has stagnated. So, I agree with what Sen. Olekina said that we need to bring up an inquiry into the matter. If people are presented with an opportunity to do excavation or to mine including murram, gemstone and clinker, they are supposed to restore the environment the way they found it, including planting trees. Otherwise, if these people do not do that, that means we should deny them licences to do mining. Recently, we were in your place. There was a Petition in this house on nuclear, because they also want to set up a nuclear power plant in Kilifi, and people are also complaining. So, Senator, we empathize with you and hope you are okay and still performing your duties. Thank you.."
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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, very quickly on three Statements. The first one is on the mining that is happening in Kilifi. My reading of Article 71 of the Constitution is that parliamentary ratification is a requirement for all these agreements that involve a grant of a right or concession by or on behalf of any person, including the national Government, to another person for the exploitation of any natural resource of Kenya. Therefore, one of the problems we have faced as representatives of the people is that sometimes these agreements are never brought to the attention of Members of Parliament, so that we can put in place a mechanism to address some of the concerns that have been raised by the Senator for Kilifi. Number two, on the Statement on accidents. Just the other day here in Nairobi, we had a very peculiar case of a Matatu overturning on Haile Selassie Avenue and people were asking how it is possible for a matatu to roll on Haile Selassie Avenue. Since all of you use Haile Selassie Avenue, there is something on Haile Selassie Avenue that never used to be there. A few months ago, the Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA) for no reason whatsoever, decided to put bumps at the exit of the roundabout on Haile Selassie Avenue. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we had a similar case on the Southern Bypass, where they just woke up one day and put road bumps and the drivers, because they were not acclimatized--- If you know the bump that I am speaking about in Haile Selassie Avenue, it is not your normal-sized bump. Some of the decisions that are being taken by the road authorities may be contributing to the accidents that we are seeing in the country that could be preventable. On that note, allow me also to pass my condolences to the students of Kenyatta University following that accident. Finally, on this freedom of speech, I am beginning to like this House. Ever since last week, the vote that was taken involving the matter from Kisii County, I am starting to like this House. I have argued repeatedly that there is something called an objective truth. People in opposition know that the sun rises from the east, and that should also be true for the people who support the Government and who are elected from the Government coalition. So, I like it when I hear Sen. Joe Nyutu speaking as passionately as he has this afternoon about freedom of speech. Let me just say that, today, together with the Senator for Vihiga County, I attended the funeral service of Dr. Chakava, who is a foremost publisher, and one of the people who founded the East African Publishers. In his eulogy, they told us that this was a person who dared to publish things in that era, where a publication of things against the Government could attract the death penalty. Dr. Chakava was publishing books by people like Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, at a time when we had sedition on our books; at a time when subversion was still a crime in this country. We were told in his story that one day he was followed by goons, presumably sent by the Government. They beat him up very badly and cut off one of his fingers. This is something that was happening way back in the 1970s and 1980s when we were under one-party rule. We will never allow ourselves to go back to that particular period in time. I have loved hearing the Senator for Kirinyaga County saying that people who put themselves in public spaces must grow a thick skin. That is exactly what I was trying to say yesterday, even in this House. People who have had experience in politics of the type of the President, the President does not need to be protected from hecklers. So, when I see the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration, instead of looking for the people who killed Mr. Sniper in Meru County, he is going to look for the people who heckled the President in Bomet County--- My reading and understanding of Article 33 of the Constitution puts only three limitations on the freedom of speech, and I can read them out here for the record:"
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"content": "“The right to freedom of expression does not extend to"
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"content": "a) propaganda for war;"
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