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    "id": 1427601,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1427601/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Let us make laws that strengthen oversight. Let us ensure that the money going to Bomet, Nandi, Kisii, Kiambu, Lamu, Turkana, and Tana River Counties has value. This amendment to the Constitution is a threat that undermines individual political rights. That is why I want to ask Sen. Chimera; if a Cabinet Secretary in the national Executive presiding over a Ministry wants to run for Presidency, will we say that because of his position, he cannot and has to wait for five years because we are still auditing that Ministry? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Gov. Lusaka sat in your seat as the Speaker of the Senate, yet we were looking at his audit queries during his tenure. Speaker Kingi was also the Governor of Kilifi County. We are doing these things in good faith. I know the Seconder said that as the Speaker they have the enormous power. I have sat in the Committee on County Public Accounts. There is no day that the Speaker of the Senate, as we considered Kilifi County audit queries, has called us to say he does want them to be looked at. We are leaders and all is entrusted to us. I thank Sen. Chimera for bringing this proposal that is well intended, but as they say in the old words of governance and democracy, let the people decide. Vox populi. That is what Kenneth Matiba said. Let us not decide for the people. We must as a country push for more value in Kilifi County. Peter Tosh in his reggae song stated that when you look outside the window, do you see anything to smile about? Even Lucky Dube said in one of his songs that if you are building more prisons than schools, then there is a problem in that society. We should push for an equal society. We should also ensure that as the relocation in Mathare area is happening on the riparian land measuring 30 meters, we do not punish the wananchi living there, but the people who approve them living along the riparian lands in our cities. I beg to reject this proposal and wait for the amendments. We shall either amend its skeletal version - not to ban anybody - or we reject it. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, with those many remarks, I oppose and reject in toto this Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill. However, I will still buy Sen. Chimera a drink even after rejecting the Bill. He knows where to get me. I thank you."
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