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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move that the Public Fundraising Appeals Bill (Senate Bills No.36 of 2024) be now read a Second Time. This is a very interesting Bill. You will recall that earlier this year when we had challenges in the country, there are many things that citizens brought to our attention about what was not right. There are things that they felt that as leaders generally, we need to address and find a long-lasting solution to. There are many things, which they told us as a leadership in Parliament and also for those in the Judiciary. I have subsequently seen that almost all organs of Government have tried to administratively respond. I know that there have been changes in the members of the Executive even by conduct, presence and those changes are continuing. In the legislature here, there are certain Bills that we have considered. There is still a lot to be done. Let us not lie to ourselves. This morning when I came to the office, part of the things that I read through is a Motion that we passed here after the invasion of Parliament on the 25th of June. I was thinking through what we have succeeded in doing, so far, and what have not. To our credit, many of the things that internally we needed to do as Parliament are in the process midway. Various committees are considering if it is matters of inclusion, our National Cohesion Committee. For example, is doing a holistic study of the report of the establishment of the entire Public Service and seeing which are the communities that are extremely marginalised and which are the parts of the country that feel left out. Part of the complaints that we had at that particular time is that there are parts of the country that felt that they do not belong to this Republic. We had asked our National Cohesion, Equal Opportunity and Regional Integration Committee to look even into the dodgy question of how public recruitments are done and whether it is possible by policy to dictate and guide where this is done. Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) by the way, you know many times Parliament does not get sufficient credit. However, I know for a fact, for example, that this PSC of ours, perhaps because of all the things that people report about us, they may not reflect and think deeply that there is anything good that comes out of Parliament. Anytime there is a recruitment exercise - I say this with full benefit of having served as the Chairperson of Staff Welfare for five years in the last session of Parliament - you are presented with a report of general representation of the country, given that there are citizens from all the 290 constituencies and breakdown also by tribe, by religion, so that even as you do your recruitment, we have what is called the 70-30 rule as a policy. I challenge anybody to check the recruitment policy of PSC where 70 or 80 per cent is done on merit, where the candidates that appear before us, make it by having been the best. That is why Parliament attracts the best talent. You can see that in the reports 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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