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    "id": 1229222,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am very grateful this evening for having listened to many words of wisdom from fellow colleagues. Each one of them who took to the Floor of this House had something to add to this Bill. I am grateful to the Senate Majority Leader for seconding the Bill. I am also grateful to all the Senators who spoke to this Bill. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to single out a few of my colleagues who contributed to this Bill. In particular, I am very grateful to the Standing Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights (JLACHR) led by you. I am very grateful for the comments that were contained and were very ably presented by my colleague, Sen. Veronica Maina. She pointed out various issues that could be included to improve this Bill. She made a lot of useful additions to what could be done to make it better. She pointed out that there could be a problem with overlapping of mandates within the Commissions that are established under Article 59. She made a point about the fund that we know as the Equitable Fund. She made a lot of useful suggestions that I took down. I am so grateful for the work that the Committee has done. The work of the Committee was also ably explained by Sen. Mumma. She spoke of the need to create within this Bill an instrument that will ensure that there is monitoring of the implementation of the progressive achievement of the socio-economic rights that we seek to implement under this law, that is carried under Article 43 of the Constitution. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Sen. Cheptumo spoke at great lengths about how there was a need for equality within this nation and how some areas of this nation have been left out. This Bill will attempt to bring an equalizing factor across the nation. I thank Sen. Wambua for his contribution. I thank particularly Sen. Tobiko who spoke passionately of the two ‘Kenyas that exist. There is Kenya that is developed and has facilities, and infrastructure. There is another Kenya that is forgotten. People who are travelling from those sides say as they board their bus, they are going to Kenya, yet they belong to this nation. I am very grateful for Sen. Okiya Omtatah and how he brought up clearly that these socio-economic rights need to be viewed within the purview of developing the cake"
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