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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "which the only way to cut and ensure you have a sustainable life, is guaranteeing this right. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the same can be said on education, medical treatment and so on and so forth. These are the social rights that are spoken about in Article 43. Sen. Mungatana is guiding us and providing an avenue and a council. When this council is set up, they will tick and see through every Government policy being proposed on this Floor or being implemented by the Executive. They will determine how the policies align and provides avenue for ordinary citizens to enjoy this constitutionally guaranteed right. I know that there are concerns that have been shared by Members of the Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee (JLAC), on either overlapping roles between the council that is being proposed here in this Bill and constitutional commissions like the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR). Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, given the facts of where we are as a country, in some of these things, the more, the merrier. If you can have one or two people checking and ensuring guarantee in terms of budgetary provisions, we will align and divide their duties so that Kenyans do not continue to suffer but enjoy these constitutional provided right. That will be good progress. I do not want to continue longer than that because there are Members of the Senate who want to speak on this particular Bill. I wish to comment up to this particular point. With those many remarks, I beg to second."
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