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    "id": 1442662,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Okenyuri",
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    "content": "policy issues that were affecting each. We do not need a repeat of the same. We have very intelligent Kenyans who have gone down and actually done this work and given recommendations, which are gathering dust in the name of reports which have never been implemented to date. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the issue of Gen Z is not going to be forgotten anytime soon. It will keep reoccurring. However, I want to urge that it should not be that we have to have protests for issues regarding young people or Kenyans to be heard. These are some of the reasons why generally people feel like we are not listening. The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) needs to conclude the investigations on some of the people who were arrested. The Independent Policy Oversight Authority (IPOA) also needs to swing into action. An organization like the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) should be disbanded with immediate effect because a lot of hate is going round all over and no one is doing anything about it. Those are some of the organizations which are siphoning public resources without nabbing people who are actually spreading hate and inciting the public. Let me also talk about the matter where the SRC is recommending a pay raise for legislators. I want to turn down that one in particular and I hope that the newspaper headlines tomorrow will be reading that Members of Parliament protest pay rises. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it cannot be that when one issue is good for the other, it is bad for another. When corruption in the national Government is mentioned, let the county government also be mentioned. The money that SRC wants to add us should be put together so that JSS teachers can be employed and public health facilities can be equipped, so that Kenyans generally get the services they rightfully require. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also want to indicate that social media is a very active tool. I salute the young people for agitating for change in this country. We did not have to wait for the young people to set direction. Sometimes, starting with this House, we are told of ranking Members, so we are borrowing from those who have come before us. However, in this case, the least expected in society are the ones who are now giving direction. As a House, that is something we need to reflect about and not just leave it to the President to implement. The President has already invited the young people on X tomorrow and I want to encourage most of them to flood that space and raise whatever issues they have to do with how best we can change leadership in this country. As much as that is left to the President, we as politicians also need to play our role in fighting corruption. I actually think that as Kenyans, generally we are born with an affinity towards wanting to do something in order to get something in return. We want a society where, for me to ascend to power, it should not be about my DNA or sexual orientation. That is the only way we can encourage young people who are watching me this afternoon from different rural villages to also be good in whatever they are doing and call a spade a spade. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I conclude on what I actually had to say this afternoon, we have had several recommendations from serious reports that have been written in this country. We need to revisit the recommendations by those reports. For example, the Abdikadir Mohamed report actually mentions most of these State corporations that should be wound up or how to better transform them so that services can be given to the people. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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