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    "id": 1374344,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 407,
        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Why is it that the framers of the Constitution, when the Kenyan Constitution was being promulgated, saw it fit to ensure that we control this issue at the county assemblies and put sanity there? That is one thing that I feel that this Report lacked. Secondly, I want to keep on reminding us that we have been on this issue of the two-thirds gender rule for quite some time. We have invited the Supreme Court, and it has pronounced itself. Now that we have an opportunity to dialogue and agree, why not agree to entrench it into the Constitution? This Report, which I support, talks about entrenching the National Government Affirmative Action Fund (NGAAF), the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) into the Constitution and the Senate Oversight Fund. Why leave out the the Ward Development Fund? Put it in the Constitution so that we stop all this back and forth about Ward Development Fund. Let us put it there. We have an opportunity to do that. Madam Temporary Speaker, the second issue is governance. There is a recommendation in this Report on the process of impeaching a governor. We already have a law. We have the County Governments Act, 2012, which stipulates that in Section 33. Why not amend it and put in a process? The Constitution foresaw an avenue where the President has not been impeached. It is true he has not, but who says that in the history of this country, a President will never be impeached? Since we are borrowing from the presidency the impeachment process with the County Governments Act, 2012, of the county government, why not entrench it there? Thirdly, because of time, I want to talk about this issue of creating of an Office of the Leader of Opposition. We have to be very clear. We also need to ensure that the Senate Leadership Office is entrenched in the Constitution. Currently, the Constitution only has the National Assembly leadership. Why not put the Senate leadership office? This Report failed in discussing the legislative role of the Senate, which is something that has always been a beef. I want us, when amending the Constitution and these legislative proposals, because there are about ten of them, to be very clear that every single Bill comes to the Senate except the Finance Act. The Finance Act must be very clear because it is a Money Bill. We need to relook at the entire Article 110, and especially elaborate further on Article 110 (3). It is wrong for us to be in this Senate, yet we are talking about having 28 pieces of legislation, which have been denied concurrence by the National Assembly. Then what exactly are we doing? We had Members. I believe that is what we failed"
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