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    "id": 1202089,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Again, the President also promised implementation of Article 43, in ensuring that people have a right to water. To ensure that many people get this water, the President has promised a change of funding, so that we can have a water purchase agreement. He has invited the private sector to invest in water by constructing large dams, distributing the water and billing the users. The private sector can then recoup their expenses and profits that they need through charges that will ensue in that sector. Therefore, the President’s Speech had so many issues, including Universal Health Care (UHC), further distribution of electricity using digital technology, just tax system and enhancement of savings by the people of Kenya. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I, therefore, call upon my colleagues and Members of this august House to close ranks and support where the President and Government is right. Let us also close ranks and criticize or properly oversight the government. This is a Government that is ready to be oversighted. Let those who will work in the Executive be ready. We have a President who is willing to be assisted by the Legislature to bring about change in this country. I want to encourage each and everyone of us in this House - unlike what Sen. (Dr.) Oburu said - not to go to bed with the Executive. Not only those who are in the Minority side, but also those in the Majority. It is our responsibility notwithstanding the side which we are sitting, to make sure that we hold the Executive accountable. If we do not do that, we are going to make the Executive fail. Those of us who are sitting in the Majority side, notwithstanding the fact that we supported, campaigned and brought a President into office, must not be sycophants. He has called us into constructive criticism and support, to make sure that anybody appointed by the President, from Cabinet Secretary to a sweeper in any office is accountable to the people of Kenya by the assistance of the legislature. It is not one side but both sides of the legislature. I want to allay the fears that the Minority side have that perhaps maybe, we are sitting here as the majority to cover up for the Executive. No! If we cover up for the Executive, the people of Kenya will know and see through our behaviour and actions and we may not have a chance to be reelected again. It is a call for all of us to make sure that we stand together as a legislature. It is a call for all of us to make sure that we stand together as a Legislature. The Senate must not sleep on its job, abrogate its responsibility or live this responsibility to the National Assembly. We must be on the forefront. In any case, His Excellency the President has also promised that he will support the funds for accountability in this House. We need to follow through that promise and ensure that there are enough resources for the Senators to go to the counties and hold their governors and their county executives into account, through proper meetings that are funded by the Executive. We must also support the National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF). We all know the difference it is making, as a unit of further devolution of resources to the constituency level. We may have had issue before with the Members of the National Assembly, but we cannot argue with the benefits that come with the NG- CDF."
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