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    "id": 1120818,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Mahamud",
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        "legal_name": "Mohammed Maalim Mahamud",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, tomorrow, we are going to have another Committee of the Whole. I think that the Cabinet Secretary (CS) will not be here on the issue of Laikipia. This is going to be the same thing for us. It is time we acted with the full force of the Constitution that we have. This censure is a significant Motion in the history of this Senate. Of course, other censure Motions have taken place before in the preceding parliaments. However, this particular one in this Senate is the first one. We should take it further that the Executive must be brought to account to the people represented by the Houses of Parliament. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Houses of Parliament have been captured by the Executive. It is where we have kept ourselves. It is time we woke up so that issues affecting Kenyans are dealt with properly. With regard to fuel pricing, as mentioned by a colleague earlier, the open tender system itself is a big cartel. Having worked in that Ministry at one time as the Assistant Minister, I know that the system of importing fuel is actually managed by cartels. The pricing system itself is very shoddy. The reason the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) is doing what it is doing, is to manipulate the system so that people benefit from it. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, today, there are more oil marketers than the big companies that are there. Every other Kenyan is an oil marketer. Small briefcase careers are marketers. In fact, much as Kenyans should go into businesses, I think it is affecting the way this business is being handled. Our Committee on Energy must deal with this matter, so that we know the root cause. For the time being, there is no reason for fuel prices to increase locally while internationally, they have not increased. There must be a stoppage to the implementation of what was done last week in the fuel price increase. We should do whatever we can so that it can be suspended. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the two CSs are actually doing the same as the others who were there. A few of them are good. This contempt must stop, so that the CSs respond to the people’s representatives. This Senate will be what it is, the way it takes to what it does for itself. If we do not put our feet down and become serious, people will not take us seriously. Parliament has been overtaken by the Executive and we must resist. The hue and cry by Kenyans - even some have gone to court - is about fuel prices. Kenyans are not being heard by the Executive. The Executive must also come out and say what they feel about this."
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