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    "id": 1490952,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13199,
        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. On the matter of social media clips, and as a media practitioner, I just want to let us know that in this day and age, any institution that does not embrace social media as part of their day-to-day transactions, then may not be doing very, very well. I believe then that Parliament must have an alternative media policy that will guide how to interact with social media platforms. On the more substantive issue of your communication, I want to thank you for it. I will say two things: First, remember we sat and made those resolutions at a time when this country was actually on the brink of burning; it was terrible. Remember, we prided ourselves as the Senate, as the House of leadership, that sat through the crisis when the National Assembly took off and went to hide themselves. I would have expected, as a leader in this country, that these resolutions would be a lot more binding to not just the committees of the Senate, but to all the other institutions that were mentioned, and to which then commitments were given. To begin with, the National Police Service (NPS), since we got a new Inspector of Police (IG) after the fact, I would have expected that the first call of duty for him would have been to apologize to Kenyans because of the crisis that we went through. Now that has not happened, and because I still believe that these resolutions are still binding, as you have required the committees to give us an update report, which I believe Sen. Cheruiyot was talking about Standing Order No.56 when the Chairpersons are bringing their updates, they should do it between now and Thursday. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would urge you to consider requiring, I do not know through which means, the other institutions of Government; the NPS, and the Ministry of Health, to just appear before a Committee of the Whole, so that they can brief this nation on how far they have gone with the implementation of these resolutions. 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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