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    "id": 1124523,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1124523/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen Khaniri",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 171,
        "legal_name": "George Munyasa Khaniri",
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    "content": "There are two things. We either amend our Standing Orders, because we cannot perpetually flout our own Standing Orders. It is clear the report should be here in 60 days. This is one year. Justice delayed is justice denied. We either amend our Standing Orders so that we can give committees ample time to work on the petitions or we find a mechanism to enforce that provision of the Standing Order, so that petition reports are tabled within 60 days. We take this for granted. I expect that in 60 days if a committee is not ready with a report, they should come and report progress. We are taking our own Standing Orders so casually. The petitioners were told they would get their report in 60 days. It is now one year and 22 days. Mr Speaker Sir, that is for you and the leadership of the House to look at. This was a petition by very ordinary citizens. I see there is some allusion that it is politically instigated. No, I want to put it on record. It is very clear that the petitioners are very ordinary Kenyans, who have been to many places to solve their problem. By the way, the Senate was not the first stop. This people first went to the defunct Interim Independent Boundaries Review Commission (IIBRC). That was the one that was led by Hon. Andrew Ligale. They did not get justice. They went to the Review Commission, the Truth and Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC), the NCIC and the National Assembly, but they did not get justice. By coming to the Senate, they were confident that they would get justice. I want to thank the Chairperson, Sen. M. Kajwang’ and his Committee. They tried they best. Even as we embarked on this Petition, I was so sure the main prayer of altering the boundaries would not have been solved by this House or by that Committee and I told the petitioners this very clearly. Besides their main prayer, which is that they want the boundaries to be altered so that this community comes to where they belong; the western side, they had other grievances which were clearly stated. This were the historical injustices. They are complaining of discrimination in terms of job opportunities, marginalization in development, elective and administrative appointments. I expected that Sen. M. Kajwang’s Committee would come up with very strong recommendations. When you tell them to go and raise these issues with the county governments, those are the oppressors. They cannot go back to their oppressors to complain. They came to the Senate so that they could get solutions. We expected that on the issue of historical injustice that has been meted on these people, this House, surely has the powers to handle that one. We can make recommendations. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the ultimate prayer was the alteration of boundaries. I told them very clearly that can only be solved after the passage of Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.’s Bill on county boundaries. I really thank Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. because we got on to this in the last Senate. I think that was the third time that Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. was moving that Bill. I want to be on record and the people of Maseno to know that the Senate has passed the Bill. We have now transmitted it to the National Assembly. It is only by passage of that Bill that we will find a mechanism to alter those boundaries because it"
}