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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "occupy and use the land for educational purposes at or in connection without interference.” The words “duration of its existence” are dangerous. It is like saying that schools for children with special needs should not be perpetual but only set up for a period of time. That is already creating room for them to be interfered with because you have given the Cabinet Secretary (CS) enough powers to say that a school should no longer exist. Therefore, I would like to beseech the Sponsors of this Bill to either delete that provision completely or amend it and indicate clearly that land shall be set aside for schools for children with special needs and shall be fully protected and not be tampered with. Clause 41 is also another issue of over-legislation, which will give room to violation of the rights of those people who occupy that place. Clause 41(1) states as follows- “No land owned by the Government and occupied by a public special education institution may be alienated except with prior approval of the Cabinet Secretary.” There you go again, giving the CS a lot of powers. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to summarize by saying this. The intention of the Bill is fabulous. However, when you over-legislate and give the CS in charge of education a lot of powers, if they CS does not agree with a particular county government, that county government may never be supported. If that is the case, county governments may decide not to allocate any money. I believe this Bill can help but if you over-legislate and give the CS so much powers such that they may decide what to do at any particular time, you will not be achieving the goal that you intend to achieve. Finally, I hope and pray that this Senate of the Republic of Kenya--- I know this is a time when everyone out there is trying to rally out support for their party leaders and campaign to be elected. Such Bills require us to take our jobs seriously and I know we can multitask. In the morning, we can go and defend our colleagues like Hon. Sabina Chege who was being persecuted by a body, which we have given power. Later on in the afternoon, we can come here and pass legislation. However, even when you go to the online platform, we are barely 10 of us. In fact, if someone was to raise the issue of quorum, it would be a problem. I beseech my colleagues that we have so much which we still have to do. We have so many Bills pending at the Committee of the Whole Stage. We also have this Bill. I would hate for it just to go to the HANSARD. We might waste our time here contributing and giving advice to the Sponsors of the Bill, like the one that I am giving to Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve and Sen. (Prof.) Kamar, not to give the CS in charge of education too much power. However, if we are not here to go through Second Reading, Third Reading and also lobby a lot--- Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve and Sen. (Prof.) Kamar may have to lobby a lot in the National Assembly, so that at least this Bill becomes law. I heard my colleagues talking about the importance of this Bill. If there is any Bill that should be prioritized, it is this Bill, but how is it going to be important if we are not The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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