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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jr.",
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    "content": "because the letters that are issued from the Office of the Clerk do not find their way to the people who request for those Statements or the Committees handling that matter. I would like to thank the Committee on Land, Environment and Natural Resources and wish the Chairman, Sen. Mwangi, quick recovery because they have worked extra hard. In the case of Makueni, the blasting of rocks was being done deliberately at night. The blasting of rocks was so bad that they were falling in people’s homes. We visited those homes. Without the Committee on Implementation that my colleagues are talking about, there is no way of doing any sort of follow-up. The Ministry of Lands and the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) sent people to check. The people whose homes were destroyed have never been given any reprieve from the blasting of rocks. I think this matter should no longer be the province of the Senate Business Committee (SBC) but it should come to the plenary. I have said this before. Sometimes, even our own committees are the enemies of the work of the Senate. Therefore, we should have the matter brought before the plenary so that we have a solution to some of the good work that the committees of this Senate are doing and the good recommendations that we have passed continuously that appear as academic documents including recommendations on the register of debt and recommendations to the National Treasury on the release of funds. The other day we had problems here on release of funds. Once we make a resolution that funds should be send to counties, it should become a recommendation that should bind the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury. If it is not followed, we have to find a method of punishing that Cabinet Secretary without a Motion. We call it contempt of Parliament and it must come to pass. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we must punish Cabinet Secretaries who do not obey our resolutions because they are orders. We cannot be like a High Court and our orders appear as if they are persuasive documents. I thank you."
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