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    "id": 1028033,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "The reason the Retirement Benefits Authority (RBA) was set up was to prevent such issues. After working for the Government or a parastatal for 60 years and getting their deductions, somebody becomes a pauper. The same thing happens to Members of Parliament. I have proposed that Members of Parliament should not go to the National Treasury for their pension. We should not beg when our money has been deducted. We should manage our pension. Therefore, the pension regime ought to be regulated. On the Petition by Sen. Mwangi, I have a Statement that I raised here. That statement was given to me by people who are managing Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). This is the reason IDPs have not been settled or paid. There is a committee that is supposed to be set up under the Act. That committee has never been set up for the last four years; it is deliberate. Therefore, there is nobody to enforce the Act. Sen. Wetangula is right that we were brought a list here by the chairperson. That list showed discrimination in this country. Somebody evicted from one area is paid more than the other one. It is a shame. The records are here and I hope that we can resolve this matter as quickly as possible. The third one is on the issue of residents of Makueni. This matter was brought by the Chinese when they were doing the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR). When Sen. Dullo called me recently about the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA), I told her that it is the most incompetent organisation in the country. I saw the Cabinet Secretary walking around the river, somewhere at Ngara, yet that is the work of NEMA. The river that Sen. Sakaja knows, where we all grew up, is full of sewer in the City of Nairobi, and NEMA is asleep. Mr. Speaker, Sir, there are no regulations on blasting. While NEMA has regulations on making noise, on decibels, there are no regulations in the country on blasts. In the case of Makueni, while people were being compensated in a 300-metre corridor, these blasts were destroying homes that were a kilometre away from the blast. Since they do not fall within the corridor, they were not compensated. I know people whose fish ponds and houses cracked. There is even a case where the blasting created so much dust. The Chinese are operating in Kenya as if they are a law unto themselves. Sen. Mwangi, I hope that you will use your usual fiery stand on people like this, because we need regulations. People are suffering. When you see a whole county assembly filing a Petition like this one, it means that the County Commissioner of Makueni has been unable to deal with it, as well as the Governor of Makueni County. It is only you who can do it, like you did when we went for the Kibwezi-Kitui Road and Nanooni Dam, where you got an order from national Governemnt officials. This is one of those instances. You not only saved the people of Makueni, but also the people of Narok. This is because the people whose houses were destroyed during the SGR construction - it must be happening along the railway wherever they are going - have never been compensated. We cannot allow this. Thank you. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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