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    "id": 1496920,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orwoba",
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    "content": "have in place should be pushed and make sure that we have efficiency in those structures. We have become side-tracked with the fact that if someone in your family dies, it is okay to set up a WhatsApp group to collect money. We have insurance companies and we have our social security fund, which we should question and bring Bills to this House and ask why this social security fund does not cater for funerals; or if it caters for funerals, why not make it efficient that no one should say they are collecting money for a funeral? Then the first question that Kenyans should ask is why are you collecting money for funerals and yet funerals are catered for under this social security fund? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I will say again that every single time you hear of this word ‘harambee’ and I challenge any Member of this House because I know I am one of the youngest, even though we have younger ones, but we all remember that harambee was ‘Nyayo’ - follow an individual. If you look at that time of that individual, we were 100 per cent dependent on a centralized system that was governed by one man, and that was our former President. This being a House that supports devolution, we should be ashamed of ourselves to come to the Floor of the House and say that, in the spirit of harambee, churches should be built, and it should not be set aside. We should be ashamed. We should support this Bill because as the ‘Upper’ House that protects devolution and ensures that we give monies to those devolved functions on the county level, we are pushing for accountability. This is to the extent that the healthcare works, the housing schemes work and the education sector works, so that we do not have any reason to come here and defend any form of law legislation that calls for us to go back to the 1960s that Sen. (Dr.) Oburu was telling me about. We have no business looking back or to go back and emulate what our forefathers were doing when there was no devolution or technology, and yet, we are advanced. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I support this Bill. I can tell you that some of us as much as we are in politics, we probably do not fit in this political space. I have analyzed all the politicians in this House and if there is one thing politicians are afraid of, is that every Thursday like today - and you can see that people are moving in and out of the House. They are looking for money because tomorrow they will be at funerals and they have to go and contribute. Then on Saturday, they have to be on the ground because they have to go and give money to social groups. They are in and out of this House and they are distracted. They cannot even contribute to this Bill because when it strikes Thursday, politicians become stressed. They have to go back to the grassroots and for harambees. They know they have all these community groups waiting for them in the grassroots and they ask, Senator, umeleta ngapi ? In that essence, what are we doing when we say that our 2010 Constitution which pushed for devolution of services and we do not support this Bill because we want us to continue contributing? If not for nothing and as a legislator who has sat in this House for two years, we must continue to push for services to be delivered 100 per cent efficiently by the government, so that we can stop the spirit of dependency, which we hide behind by saying that harambee is our forefathers. 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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