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    "id": 1499744,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "If you want to build a strong home, you must constantly build three things in a human being. That is why, even in the creation, there is Holy Trinity. That is why we were created in threes. The first thing you must feed in a human being is the mind. That is why we have got an education system. Once you have fed the mind of a human being, there is still no peace if you do not feed the heart of a human being. That is where the churches and the mosques come in. A peaceful heart with an educated mind is never peaceful unless you also feed the stomach of this human being. That is when you get a complete human being. Madam Temporary Speaker, any moment you take away any of those segments in the society, you cannot make it. We, as a Government, and as a political class can only feed the stomach. Educational institutions can only feed the brain. Where do we leave the hearts of our people? It is to the churches and the mosques and we cannot allow any law that makes it impossible to build those churches and mosques. In this Bill, we have also seen a provision that says if you want to do fundraising, you must first do it in your family. I come from a family where the first name that has been heard in this country in our family and in the entire generation and which Aaron Cheruiyot knows is Eddie Oketch. This is because my grandfather, Kawisa died a long time ago in some village in Nyakune, near the Gogo Falls that nobody knows. This means that it has an impact on the well-being of my entire community and family. Madam Temporary Speaker, you are putting me in a position where if I want to fundraise, I can only do it with my family and not with the family of Mungatana, whom I now know and I can invite to support me here and there. This is discriminatory and making people to be in their own cocoons of successful families, the haves versus have- nots. We cannot allow that in our country. Lastly, there is the issue of regulators. You are talking about regulations being done by cabinet secretaries. In law it looks easy, but in practice, how will this cabinet secretary regulate the President and make sure that the President abides by the requirements of this law? It is not possible. The President cannot be regulated by a person he supervises and he is his boss. Madam Temporary Speaker, this Bill says that at the county level, the CECM in charge of planning and social development will regulate fundraising. How will this person regulate the governor and yet our governors have so much ego that you cannot even tell them something in a funeral or in a function? It will mean that some political class will have more power to take advantage of fundraising further than the other political class that do not have that power. Madam Temporay Speaker, it will be a business for the higher political class to do what they want with fundraising and leave those people who are ‘smaller.’ In fact, you are giving the most powerful political people a tool to harass their opponents and other people with this Bill. This is a good and a well-intended Bill to cure the problems of our leadership under Article 17 of the Constitution, but it is not a solution. It is legislating the behaviour of bad politics and the bad manners of politicians that cannot be cured by this Bill. 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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