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    "id": 1227110,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "in this House that when a CS comes here, do not look at him as Kenya Kwanza, a man from your tribe or as a friend of yours. Let the Senate be the Senate. If you saw the editorial cartoon in yesterday’s newspaper, parliamentary oversight was depicted as a corpse lying on a slab with many daggers on its back. That tells you the mood of the public as far as the role of this Parliament is concerned. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let us use this opportunity to rise above parochial and partisan interests. Let us use this opportunity to convince the nation that legislative oversight that was depicted as lying comatose on a slab has been revived and that this Senate will be that House, where because we are fewer, we are able to make more meaningful questions, guide conversations and put the Executive to the task. There have been many ways and avenues for policy positions to come to this House. Just last week, we approved the Budget Policy Statement. Every year, the President is required to come to Parliament to make an Exposition of Public Policy. The Motion that follows a Presidential Address is that the Senate registers its thanks to the President for the Exposition of Public Policy, contained in the Presidential Address. There has been no shortage of opportunities for public policy to be brought here. Assuming no one goes to Court and invalidates what we did last week – I am not trying to threaten anybody – this is going to be a torture Chamber for those who have the habit of misusing the instruments of power that they wield. It will be an accountability Chamber for those who think that they can hide in the ivory towers and run away from the public. It will be an accountability Chamber for those who think that a Senator must make an appointment three or four days before and when they go there, they are kept waiting for six hours. We will meet here. We will ensure that we squeeze out of them the accountability that Kenyans expect. We will ensure that we are not going to have a rogue Government that will be running this country from ivory towers and the Executive. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as you know, some of them are people we competed against in the last elections. You work very hard to become a Member of the Senate. The person you vanquished becomes a CS and then they are the ones who are loading it over you."
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