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    "id": 1425262,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "So, I want to thank the Senate’s Chairman of the JLAC and the committee for providing guidance. This is leadership. We will take a cue from the report of the committee and reject this Bill in totality. In toto! I do not know whether there is such a name in English. I am happy, at least with the secretariat that we have. Allow me to celebrate our finest drafters and legislative drafters in this House. Dr. Johnson Okello, Director of Legal Services has been elected the President of the Multinational Association of Legislative Council (MALC). He is the first African jurist to sit. That body was formed 40 years ago. However, we have Dr. Johnson Okello, our Director of Legal Services, who holds a PhD in law. He has practiced law for over two decades. I know where he comes from, having an education is not a problem. However, we celebrate him. For us who have interacted with Dr. Johnson Okelo, Director of Legal Services of the Senate, he is a man of immense knowledge, wisdom and guidance at any given opportunity. So, allow me to celebrate him and wish him well as he serves for the next two years as the President of the MALC. If we were using meritocracy as a yardstick, these are people who should be occupying the highest offices in the land. However, since we use other measurements like night running and other issues, then it is always a complicated story. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, allow me to make five comments. Thank you and your office for supporting our secretariat. Our secretariat is the best. Dr Johnson Okelo has led. I know several secretariats from our Clerk, Mr. Nyegenye, the Deputies and the Table Officers here. We always celebrate and have tremendous respect for all our staff, even the gatemen and the people who serve us tea and food. All our staff, even the Serjeant-at-Arms are doing a tremendous job. I know this is the sum total of what you are doing in terms of leadership of the Senate and the Parliament of Kenya. However, you should not also gag us when we have reservations on some of the services in the House. Clause 7 talks to Article 118 on public participation. How can you say if one House holds a public participation, the other should not? It is a constitutional requirement that public participation by members of public must be done. That is where we get the second opinion. Even on the Finance Bill now, public participation is mandatory. You saw there were advisors that were paid Kshs1 billion. However, the only advice they gave us was to add Kshs10 to a loaf of bread. It is causing hue and cry. This is why we need to go back to the people in public participation. It is in bad faith to say that if the National Assembly has had public participation, we should not hold ours. We have a symbiotic relationship. We are distinct, but we must do our jobs. Let the Senate and the National Assembly do public participation separately. On the Sugar Bill in the mediation committee, the National Assembly conducted public participation. We should propose that if the National Assembly conducts public participation in Makueni County, the Senate can do it in Siaya County. They can do it in Nairobi and we can do it in Nandi County. We could also conduct public participation in"
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