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    "id": 1475213,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "amendments to guarantee minimum returns legislation are lying in the National Assembly. I challenge our county assemblies. Let us be honest, if we want to do food security. Let us first track the Bills that touch on farmers. Many of the Bills from the Senate would have assisted because agriculture is devolved under the Fourth schedule of the Constitution. Most of our Bills belong to the agriculture sector. Murang’a County where Sen. Joe Nyutu and yourself come from are majority farmers. The National Assembly has become a graveyard for our Bills, especially the Agricultural Bills just because their leadership is busy with other things. I want to call upon them to first track those Bills. I saw them crying over the NG-CDF. Madam Temporary Speaker, you are a senior lawyer in this Republic. My proposal is that the NG-CDF will and shall remain unconstitutional into the future. They were saying that if you remove NG-CDF, there will be no bursary. The conversation in the country today is simple. Can we put all the bursary from County Assemblies Forum (CAF), NG-CDF, county governments, the Ministry of Education, into one pot? Let us not subject our children to tokenism, where if you do not know a Member of Parliament (MP), woman representative, Permanent Secretary (PS) or a governor, your child cannot get a bursary. Let us put into one basket and send it to school. Let every Kenyan child from Murang’a, Nandi, Uasin Gishu, Mandera, Moyale and Kisumu just walk into a learning institution and learn without worrying. Let us make education free. I am happy as I say this with passion. The Chairperson of the Standing Committee of Education in the Senate is listening to this. I know Sen. (Prof.) Kamar is also a member. I hope the Committee sits and give us a proposal to amalgamate all the tuition that comes into this. On the issue of food security, I challenge county assemblies. We saw there was a subsidy programme on fertilizer. Going into the future, our counties should know--- Madam Temporary Speaker, you saw the Nandi County Assembly yesterday. I have been telling them that they need to process Bills that assist farming and food security. The people of Nandi went to Nandi County Assembly to demand impeachment of their Governor because of lack of policies to spur the agricultural sector in this Republic. I thank the people of Nandi for going to “greet” Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) peacefully, although they went ahead to form an ad hoc Committee instead of commencing impeachment proceedings. We have given MCAs of Nandi 14 days to process an Impeachment Motion against Governor Sang and bring it to the Floor of the Senate. I can assure you because we do not condone corruption, bad governance or underdevelopment. We shall uphold the impeachment charges led by yours truly. That is critical. My opinion is that the MCAs did the wrong thing yesterday by forming an ad hoc Committee instead of initiating impeachment proceedings. Finally, I want to ask the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) and the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) even as we investigate the issue of fertiliser in the country. There is the issue of payroll fraud. 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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