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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I thank the young Senator for this innovation. I specifically discourage the issue of multiple licensing procedures that this Bill attempts. If we pass this Bill as proposed, we will have clear-cut principles enshrined that will be a game-changer. As I have said, doing business will now be simplified. You do not have to be challenged 12 times before your goods arrive from Japan to reach Kakamega. This Bill will also ensure that there is equity, transparency and accountability in the administration of the licensing procedures. Finally, this Bill will ensure that the licensing framework is consolidated and requires persons to hold a minimum number of licenses; ideally, one, two or at most, three. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am saying this like am talking to the Majority side alone. Again, I ask, where are the Azimio Coalition Party Senators in this House? I say that carefully because on paper, our able Speaker might look like he is a Member of Azimio Coalition Party, but he is a de facto non-Azimio Member. Many Senators in the Azimio Coalition are young Senators. I encourage them to take advantage of this platform. The platform of Parliament is very big. It is the highest platform from which you can speak. Instead of wearing a sufuria on your head to go and dodge the police, who are trying to discourage you, you can say all the things you want to say in Kawangware and Kibra in this House. It will be on record and stand a chance of becoming law. My brother, the Senator of Bungoma, I was with you. Sen. Mungatana, you have to proudly tell people you are senior and proudly encourage them to listen to you. Some of the things I see new Members of Parliament doing are unbelievable. I was with the Senator of Bungoma in a function two weeks ago, in Tongeren. I saw and heard a Member of Parliament, begging the Chair of the Committee on Budget in Parliament to give him money, so that he could build a classroom. Sen. Wafula, you know who I am talking about. I was shocked. He told the Chairman of the Committee that because he had graced the occasion, he should help him build two classrooms at Martin Shikuku Primary School. Amazing! This is the Chairperson of a committee; he is neither the Cabinet Secretary in charge of Finance nor the Head of State from whom you can ask for such. He is your The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard Services,Senate."
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