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    "id": 1066307,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jr",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": ".: Sen. Cherargei should have been mentored. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is useful to have interns. I am not sure whether this is the first time. Sen. Wetangula and I have been here long enough and we have never seen interns before. More importantly is that they should be attached at some level to the Senators because we do the drafting and debate. Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki is a law teacher and there is a lot to learn from him. Sen. Wetangula does not say this as much but he interned with my late father. Therefore, there should be another Sen. Wetangula created through these good people. Our clerk, Mr. Nyegenye, is an expert in drafting. We have a weakness in Kenya on legislative drafting. Therefore, it is important as they intern, to get people who are good draft persons. This is because Senators need people who can help them to draft legislation. It is always a challenge. I hope that you can give them good certificates once they leave the Senate for purposes of the work that they have done. I also expected my Chairperson to write a good report about the people who drafted our report, like we did, with Sen. Sakaja when we got an excellent report from people working under our good Clerk on the Solai Report. We wrote a recommendation to say that we appreciate the work of the secretariat. I want to say on the Floor that Deputy Clerk, Ms. Eunice Gichangi and Dr. Okello did a good job on our report. When we were doing the Constitution (Amendment) Bill, we should have had these interns in the room. I did not see them. Let us hope that you will attach them to every Committee. Let them participate and give them work to do. Let them draft legislations. The clerk should give them work to do. Let them draft anything under the sun and grade them so that by the time they leave here, it will be a useful course for them Bill Clinton became the President by visiting the Congress. So, there is a lot to learn. It is also a privilege to sit in the Speaker’s Chamber. I wish that it will be useful to them and we wish them well."
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