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    "id": 1443310,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Methu",
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        "legal_name": "Methu John Muhia",
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    "content": "throw jabs at anybody. We are just telling you the truth. You are a weak link. You have all the evidence. Mr. Speaker, Sir, had the people of Kenya not made noise against the former Governor of Migori, Okoth Obado, he was almost walking free. Just because he has returned little things here, now the office of the DPP says that we have now built consensus, just go in peace and never steal again. If we cannot have an honest conversation with the DPP, then we will have lost. There are many other independent offices and many people have spoken about them, and we need to look at them. There is one body that appeared before us called the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (PPRA). In every report that has been laid on the Floor of this House, you will never miss a county that has an irregular procurement process. We have never had even one report from the PPRA. In fact, it has to be an initiative of either the Members of this Senate or the members of the public to write to PPRA to tell them that there is something that we are seeing in a certain public entity. These are the bodies that I am calling vestigial. They are not useful. Their usefulness and their utility approaches zero power to infinity. We must either do away with them or they must be very deliberate. Our young people have spoken about excesses. I am very sorry to my colleagues who are in this House to say that when we speak about excesses, we start with ourselves as Members of this Committee, as Members of Parliament and as Members of this Senate, before we even go out. We shall believe that this conversation has sunk in the minds of the people in this House - if we are very honest - for instance, the day that you will call a clerk of your committee because you are travelling to Mombasa and the clerk tells you that the only available flight is an economy flight, and you agree to fly on economy and not say that you want to fly on the next available business class. I do not know about the others, but I will speak for myself. Before I became a Member of this House - and I want to be very honest with you - I used to fly on economy class. Why am I very special now that I have to travel on business class? If there is no business class then I cannot travel to Mombasa here, which is just a flight of 45 minutes? So, it has to start with us. It also amazes me that a governor who used to travel using one vehicle now has to attend a funeral using a convoy of five vehicles. The lead car has communication officers, the second car has media officers, the third car is his lead car, then his car with a flag followed by a chase car and other cars. In a rural county like Nyandarua, Homa Bay or any other county that you are speaking about, you will see a governor attending a funeral in a convoy that has sirens in a county that has never seen a traffic jam. I imagine that sirens are either for traffic jams or for ambulances. It is this kind of vomiting on the people of Kenya that we are speaking about, and that is what Gen Z are saying. If we cannot stop these kinds of excesses, then we shall have failed the people of Kenya. I would dare ask, why is it that when we are elected, we are very close to our people and now, you are a governor or a Senator of a rural county like the county that I come from, and you think that you now require eight bodyguards? Why do you require 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."
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