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    "id": 1326472,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Remember, there was that exhumation exercise that was ongoing in this particular part of the country. This is something that is good for the history books. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Kenya is still a young Republic. Many times we do work and do not know that years down the line, in another 50 or 100 years, there will be Members of Senate who will refer to such reports. There might not be anybody alive to bring to the facts like a report of a committee of Parliament can do. Therefore, they will be relying on reports such as the one that we adopted in this House, to get the accuracy of the happenings in this particular day and age. Therefore, I wish to urge colleagues that when we retreat to such particular instances, let us do this job the same way. This is not with specific reference to this Committee, but to all of us as Members of Parliament to know that when we generate such reports, there will be people 100 years down the line who will know that there was a Senator called Danson Mungatana and he represented the people of Tana River County in the Senate in the 13th Parliament. It will be remembered that one time, Sen. Mungatana chaired an Ad Hoc committee that looked into the proliferation of such cultic behaviours and so forth. I would wish to draw a reference at that particular time. People who would want to understand why certain laws are the way they are and why the country behaves in a particular way, will refer to these documents. By the time I left the Parliamentary Service Commission at the end of last term, we were in the process of acquiring a digital record. It is good that I say this when Commissioner Sen. Omogeni is here. I hope that they can conclude on that particular process. Many Members of Parliament do not know where the Parliamentary library is. It is somewhere hidden in a building called County Hall, in the basement. There are many Members who have never shown up at that place. It is important to establish a mechanism through which we file such reports so that it is not just in pen and paper or on a computer. It will be important for people to search in a 100 years or even more later and establish what this House and its committees said. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the first thing that I appreciate about this Committee is that it pointed out a glaring gap. I agree with those saying it is insanity, as we have been informed elsewhere, to do the same thing over and over and expect different results each time."
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