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    "id": 1044388,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
        "slug": "erick-okongo-mogeni"
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    "content": "Sen. Orengo who joined us all the way from Dubai. Technology has brought so many benefits. There is another cadre of people that we keep on forgetting; our members of staff from the legal department who do a lot of work behind the scenes. This team prepares submissions and burns the midnight oil to ensure that the papers that are needed to be filed in court are filed timeously. Mr. Speaker, Sir, a proposal has been made that some of us should be considered to get some state commendations titles. I hope that the Parliamentary Service Commission through our two Commissioners and the Clerk will also treat those members of staff with fairness when issues of promotion arise. We should not leave them to be at the mercy of other Members of the Commission from the National Assembly who may hit back at them because they do a lot of effort in ensuring that they support the team of Senior Counsels in prosecuting these matters in court. I fully support the Members who have been proposed to serve in the Senate Business Committee. Most of them are colleagues who we have worked with. They are people we know that they are very dedicated; first among equals. They served us very well last time and I hope that they will continue with that tradition. I hope that they will give priority to some of the Bills that Parliament as an institution has lagged behind. It is unfortunate that we have had the 2010 Constitution with us for eight years and we knew that in that Constitution we enacted chapters that necessitate any amendment to the Constitution to be done through the referendum, but we have never enacted the referendum law. To be fair to ourselves, that is a big indictment to us. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you saw what happened in Siaya County. Since there is no law that guides how we should conduct issues of referendum--- Although the Constitution gives them 90 days to accord them an opportunity to do public participation and involve the people of Siaya, that Bill was enacted in a record one day. I think it is us who should stand indicted because if we had enacted the referendum law, then the county assemblies would have had a legislation that guides them. I hope that the Senate Business Committee will give this piece of legislation priority, so that we are able to guide our 47 counties. Otherwise, we will be opening this good idea of Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) into unnecessary litigation that could have been avoided. While on this, last week I was among the mourners who attended the funeral of the father of the Deputy Governor of Kisii. Unless we do some civic education and tell the people who belong to the ‘hustler nation’ what hustlers are meant to do and should not do, you will find people who attend forums being intolerant and do not want to hear alternative views. While we were in Kisii, a Member of Parliament rose to make a proposal that the issue of Presidency should be rotational and some regions should get opportunities for Presidency. However, woe unto ourselves, within no second, I was shocked to see a Member of Parliament dressed in a red tie, white shirt and black suit jumping on a table which was as high as where you are sitting, simply because he believes that the ‘hustler nation’ should not be tolerant to hear an alternative view. 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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