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    "id": 1066151,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Nyamunga",
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        "legal_name": "Rose Nyamunga Ogendo",
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    "content": "our stand. However, when the two leaders saw that the issues between them were much smaller than Kenya, they put all their differences aside. They sat and deliberated on the issues and had a handshake. From that day, I have felt I am a Kenyan. I started seeing any other person from any other tribe as a brother. I remember growing, when a person from another tribe was even a bigger sister or brother to me. In the process, our leaders misled us and brought a lot of confusion. From then, we have never seen peace that we should have seen as a nation that got Independence. Madam Deputy Speaker, because of that, I support this Bill not because it is perfect, but because the gains are big and will unite Kenyans. The most important thing is the unity of our country, something we have lacked. We have seen each other as enemies. From now and from the day of the handshake, I have already mentioned that I have seen myself as a Kenyan. I can go and even trade anywhere freely with all the people of this country. Let me mention a few things that have been raised by colleagues. First, we should not be talking about a bloated Parliament when, right now, we are running on an unconstitutional Parliament. If it were not so, we would not be having this Parliament and should have gone for another election. Therefore, we must correct what is not right. We cannot do a wrong and a wrong; we must find a middle ground. The middle ground is that we must bring the womenfolk in Parliament. As already mentioned by Sen. Kwamboka, when we were elected as women representatives in the last Parliament, we did not have resources. We did not know what to tell our womenfolk who elected us in the villages and knew that all their problems will be sorted out by us. It took us three years to create a fund. Even in this Senate, I believe that if there will be need to create another fund to make the work of the Senate easier, we will do and manage it. We managed then as women alone. This time we are joint and we can do it. Right now, we cannot even do our oversight in a proper manner. That is a fund that we must look for. We must tell Kenyans that we need this fund for us to do proper oversight and do our work in a proper manner. If we have that, we will not have to wait for the Auditor- General to say A, B, C and D, and then we run. We cannot be a reactive Parliament; we have to be proactive. We must have functional offices that should be able to identify where the problems are and bring it to the attention of the public. That is one of the things that we will do as a combined Senate, with both men and women. Secondly, Madam Deputy Speaker, people say there is COVID-19, the country is poor and that we do not have money in the budget. Why have we become poor and who has made us so poor? I believe that some of us who are propagating this idea of a bloated Parliament and saying there is no money, know what has made Kenya poor. We are poor because of corruption. If we can go by Chapter Six of the Constitution, I believe we should have enough resources to take care of every aspect of our governance, and there will be nobody saying we do not have resources. Kenya is rich. We are endowed and Kenyans are resilient; we work day and night. We have women who walk on their feet and are breadwinners for their families. Their families still eat and they take their children to school. I believe that 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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