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"content": "sana. Observe what we do. I hope my time is not running out. I now rise to support the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.67 of 2023). I will make quick remarks as I support the proposals to amend the Children's Act and the Copyright Act that is very important. The Copyright Act tries to recognise the work being done by our musicians. We have these young people who are out there producing 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."
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"content": "and recording music. However, when it comes to receiving royalties, they are not properly paid. This amendment Act gives a formula on how these young men and ladies are to be paid in terms of royalties. I also wish to comment on the proposal to amend the Scrap Metal Act. This is an Act that deals with scrap metal. Scrap metal is a valuable commodity in the country because some small- scale industries rely on it to produce goods to be sold. We know very well that unless this industry is regulated, there is a danger of people going out there to vandalise any metal they come across and sell it as scrap metal. So, it is important that we amend this Act to protect what they do. We have a proposal to amend the National Employment Authority Act. Many of us here may not know that such an Authority exists. It is the Authority that regulates employment in the country. Emphasis is being laid here to ensure that Kenyans get employed in all these entities that are employers under the Federation of Kenya Employers (FKE) and other organizations. We also have proposals to amend the Fisheries Management and Development Act and the Energy Act. On this, I urge you to read the Memorandum of Objects and Reasons of this Bill. You will see what kind of proposals are being made. There are also proposals to amend the Public-Private Partnerships which is a very important entity. Under this proposed law, both the private parties and government entities will work in partnership to ensure that our country moves forward and develops. We are looking at some of the Public-Private Partnerships that we have today to ensure that what is required to be done is achieved. I have in my constituency what is called “Kibuuka Grand Falls Dam” which has to come under the Public-Private Partnership so that this country can generate more power and water for irrigation under such a scheme. Finally, we have a proposal to amend the Parliamentary Service Act and the Judicial Service Act in a similar manner in that these are two independent institutions. Parliament is an independent second Arm of Government while the Judiciary is an independent third Arm of Government. Both have independent commissions that take care of them. The proposal introduced here is to ensure these commissions are able to take care of members’ welfare. That welfare includes Members of Parliament who do a great service to this country. Some have to travel long distances from their constituencies to the central House of Parliament here in Nairobi. They encounter hardships. They do not know where to sleep or put up. Possibly, they do not know where to spend their evenings. This is where the Parliamentary Service Commission comes in. It is now being empowered to ensure that, away from other bodies, it is able to take care of Members’ welfare. This is very important. The same applies to judges and members of staff of the Judiciary. In as much as we talk about parliamentary staff, the Judicial Service Commission should be able to take care of judges and members of staff while they are discharging their duties. It should take care of that away from the ‘interference’ from other bodies. These are very important laws that we need to support. We need to agree to effect the amendments to benefit the affected that we target with the laws we are propagating. With those many remarks, I support the proposed amendments. I urge this House to support the Bill, pass it, and implement it for the betterment of the House of Parliament and the Judiciary"
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"speaker_name": "Hon. David Ochieng’",
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"content": " Member for Dadaab."
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"content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, I stand to support the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill. We have critical infrastructure in this country. One of the biggest problems happening now is the vandalism of some of those critical infrastructures like transformers. It would not cost much 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."
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"content": "for any organisation to put up the right cameras wherever there is a transformer. We already have a unit in the police force that is supposed to protect critical infrastructures such as these. We cannot continue having small cartels who specialise in sending young boys to vandalise such infrastructure and then bring those things as scraps for them to sell to the international market. They are copper, transformers and all these things. The exportation of scrap metals should be banned in the country. We need to ban it. We are a country that wants to industrialise. We can recycle the metals and use them to add value to our industrial sector. The penalties should not only apply to the young boys who steal these things and take them to a big person at the other end. Usually, handling stolen property should carry more severe penalties than stealing itself. The people encouraging vandalism are business people who want to export these things. They pull, aggregate and consolidate it then sell to the Chinese and others who send it out of the country. You cannot fight the symptoms of a disease. You attack the vector. Any developing country worth its salt and wants serious development cannot develop without an industrial take off. You cannot have an industrial take off if you do not protect your metals. We have to protect them. We are talking about having power outages and not getting our electricity because of this kind of thuggery, burglary and stealing these things. During the French Revolution, the famous princess said, “let them eat cake if they do not have bread”. The dirge of someone who is not from Northern Kenya befits the state we are in very well. We do not have the national grid in the whole region. We only have it just past Isiolo and up to Garissa on the other side. We do not have the national grid and electricity connections beyond there. We do not have electricity connection. All the things you talk about such as the last mile connectivity are news and music to our children, students, mothers, fathers and young mothers and fathers. While talking about these things, it is important to understand the need to take these developments to the four corners of this country. The only way to do that is to disabuse this very village concept of trying to reduce this country into the “villagisation” of politics and the politicisation of every small thing. We passed the Equalisation Fund when I was in the 10th Parliament. The principle and idea behind the Fund was for those old Northern Frontier Districts and contiguous districts that were a buffer zone for the centre. They were left out of development right from colonial days up to the time we got Independence. We had the Sessional Paper No. 10 to continue that institutional marginalisation of those areas. We had all those years by the time we were passing our 2010 Constitution. That is from the time we became a colony and protectorate of Kenya up to the time we got Independence. That was 30 years later after over 100 years of systematic Government institutional marginalisation of those areas. We ended up with a very small amount in the Equalisation Fund, 0.5 per cent of the annual revenue, initially distributed amongst 14 or 16 counties - Garissa, Wajir, Mandera, Lamu, Isiolo, Marsabit, Turkana, Samburu, West Pokot, Tana River, Narok, Kwale, Garissa, Kilifi, and Taita- Taveta. Those were the intended original beneficiaries. The area was expanded to call it Arid and Semi-Arid Land (ASAL) areas. These areas did not suffer over a period as we did. It was watered down. It was going to have very little effect. We went further and said that we were going to look for marginalised pockets in the rest of the country. Do you get my point? We were looking for them even in major urban centres. The idea is very simple. It was a way of trying to make sure that this country does not remain a united Republic of Kenya with one nation and one people called Kenyans. Nobody is 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."
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"content": "going to accept to become a second class or a third class citizen in his country. Over time, these are recipes for revolutions. It is absolute nonsense today when I see people talk about one man, one woman, one vote, one shilling. You cannot any more get dimwits to advocate such petty things that you would not want to be associated with as a nationalist. Somebody like that would want to become a president in this country. You think you are going to become a president and people are going to allow you to run the country yet you take them like your slaves or part of your colony? No! They will revolt against you and there will be a revolution in the country. There is going to be civil war. It is a recipe for conflict. And when that happens, there is no guarantee on who is going to remain in the country. In Rwanda, similar things happened. The ethnicity of every Rwandan had to be put in their identity cards, where they were called Tutsi or Hutu. The Tutsi were only 15 per cent. They endured marginalisation and victimisation from the time they got Independence from the Belgians until 1994. There were programmes and plans to wipe them out from the face of the earth. They were called cockroaches. What eventually happened? They fought their way, kicked out the oppressors from the country and that 58 per cent has had the reigns in Rwanda from 1994 until today. If you read the history of Uganda, you will see the kinds of things that used to be done to the Banyankole, the Bahima, the Bakiga, the Batoro and other people of the west. The conflict used to be between the northerners, who are basically Nilotes, and the Baganda in the centre. It was the Kabaka side or it was Milton Obote, Brigadier-General Tito Okello and others. Eventually when they could not endure, somebody from the north comes and gives them hell, another one from the other side comes and gives them hell. Basically, they were the punching bag for everybody. In a sense, the minorities in this country cannot accept to be a punching bag for anybody regardless of whether you consider yourself a majority or not. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg you to give me five more minutes."
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"content": " You will have two."
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"content": " I have three. Thank you."
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"content": " I said you have two."
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