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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Thang’wa",
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    "content": "As I mourn Kelvin Kiptum, I believe going forward, all those people who carry our flag high, must be treated in a manner that they are given special treatment and recognition. Madam Temporary Speaker, in the USA, all those military personnel do not queue at the airports. They even have their counter for veterans and military personnel because they do something for that country and they are recognized for that. I believe we can do that as a country, to give our sportsmen and women recognition so that as they are trained and educated on how to live with the new fame, they will be proud to be Kenyans. Concerning the issue of accidents, I am the Chairman of the Roads and Transportation Committee. In the last Session, we invited the National Transport and Security Authority (NTSA) boss to come and explain to us what they are doing to curb road carnage. We were not satisfied as a committee with what we heard from the Inspector General of the Police and the NTSA boss. We are going to invite him again to appear before our Committee to come and explain what steps they have taken, because there is confusion in the police department and NTSA. NTSA says they are only doing policy while the Inspector General of the Police says we are only implementing what NTSA says. So, there is a disconnect between who is supposed to man our roads and transportation because everybody is blaming the other. Madam Temporary Speaker, in the previous regime, there were presidential recommendations and awards that were given to some people who did not deserve such an award. When we have these kinds of sportsmen and women who are not recognized--- You can imagine a person was given a presidential commendation for queuing while holding githeri the whole day while voting. Yet, we have people who have done so much for this country. They wake up very early in the morning to practice and raise our flag higher and they do not get the right recognition. In conclusion, what are our governors doing? Sports is devolved. They should have kitties for supporting these sports men and women. Instead of getting money and handouts to give goons to follow them around, they can do something for the sports men and women of their county. This is so that when they raise the flag higher, they also raise the flag of that county. We need to do something for these governors because I most of them do not know why they are there. That is why, I am bringing an amendment to Standing Order No. 58 to introduce Standing Order No. 59 to have governors come and stand here-just like the way we have Cabinet Secretaries-to answer some of these questions. This is the only place they will be able to be grilled and answer questions without their goons intimidating anybody and the people at home will hear and understand---"
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