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    "id": 1123733,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "id": 407,
        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "why they were given mandate by the people. They should not be get there, then get confused by power. If they do their job properly, the people will have them back there. The House is empty today because everybody is out there looking for votes. They could be out there looking for votes or drumming support for somebody else, but the truth of the matter is that we should separate that. Kenyans ought to see what their legislatures are doing. When you are given a job, go out there and do it. Let us run away from the culture of campaigning from the day you are elected into office to the day when you are going to the ballot box. The Independent and Electoral Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has not even declared the campaign period, but as you can see, we are campaigning. I want to ask the people in the 47 counties to fear those who are fast in campaigning. They should be doing their work. In the Senate, we have a lot of Bills that we need to pass. We have Committees that come up with legislation. Those Bills go through public participation. The laws that are supposed to support and help the citizens sometimes end up being time barred and they cannot be passed by Parliament. A case in point is the Bill by the distinguished Senator for Busia County, Sen. Wako. Sen. Wako came up with the Bill on public participation and it did not pass in the last Parliament because of our dilly dallying nature and lack of interest on issues of accountability and having the public involved in legislative process. I am sure that it will suffer the same fate even in this Parliament. I support this Statement and pray that we have some sense on the debate on oversight."
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