HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept
{
"id": 1402638,
"url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1402638/?format=api",
"text_counter": 137,
"type": "speech",
"speaker_name": "Sen. Orwoba",
"speaker_title": "",
"speaker": null,
"content": "have a way to impeach these people. There is a misconstrued notion that some of these Cabinet Secretaries have favour or are the favourites of the President, and they think they can get away with anything. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is a fallacy. You can be the President’s favourite, but as long as you are not working or delivering to the people, he is very clear and he keeps saying that he has not appointed you because you are a friend, but because you are supposed to deliver to the people. When I look at this piece of legislation that Sen. Cherarkey has brought, I think it should be scaled up to cover many other people who should be impeached.We probably need to look at those State agencies in a manner that if they affect county governments, the impeachments should be carried out here. This is one of the moments where I suspect the President requires that we also do our work as legislators, as Members of these two Houses carrying out oversight, to ensure that if anyone is sleeping on the job, we do not have to wait for him to reshuffle the Cabinet or drop someone. We can just do our work here as the holders and protectors of devolution. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I do not want to comment on the Bunge Tower, but I want to encourage my colleagues to do the work that we have been given here. Some of us have been conducting this work without offices. I have not had an office given to me by the Senate. Therefore, now that you are being allocated offices, it will make your work easier. However, I must say this carefully. My background is in architecture and when I looked at how the use of space in that building was crafted, someone slept on the job or someone with fake architectural papers was given that job to design. Some offices do not have windows. In some offices, you have to sit under air conditioning for all the hours. We put in four hours in the Chamber in the afternoon. Some of us are in committees from 9.00 a.m., and we also have to see the electorate. How will you be sitting under the air conditioning? When I see Sen. Cherarkey raising concerns, I can tell you that those concerns are valid. I know that my area Member of Parliament from Bobasi Constituency in Kisii County is involved as a quantity surveyor. I can tell you that coming from the field of construction, with a background in architecture, we need to ask for a proper audit of the monies that were paid to each contractor, from the architect, the quantity surveyor, to the person who supplied those lifts. You cannot be waiting for lifts for 15 minutes. I was there yesterday. I stood there pressing all the buttons on that floor waiting for a lift, which took me about 15 minutes. It is not that we want a soft life, but things must work. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am very happy to have been allocated an office there. I have seen the office and from a person who has come from no office at all to an office, I appreciate that at least my office has a window. I cannot complain, but point out that as legislators with different delegations of people to address, I have a staffer who deals with sexual reproductive health and rights, periods and menstruation. I am sharing an office with a person who wants nothing to do with those things. All my guests who will be coming there with menstruation cups and sanitary towels et cetera will be forced to interact with those members of staff. What was the necessity of forcing legislators who have nothing to do with each other's constituencies to share an office; at the cost of Kshs9 billion and how many years later? 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 and AudioServices, Senate."
}