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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ogola",
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    "content": "we begin the Session because we would like priorities to be set. I support the names of the Senators that have been brought up because they are outstanding. We believe in them to set the priority of the Senate. I wanted to support this early enough, so that I leave early enough for Addis Ababa. You all know that we have an outstanding candidate in Ethiopia in the following days, and a number of us should have left. Yesterday, I was having a conversation with my friend. I told them that I was going to leave by bus or on foot or fly to Addis Ababa because that is a path that we have followed all these years. I support this Motion because there are serious issues that we should be attending to as a Senate. You have seen in the news the increasing numbers of issues of femicide all over the country. Those are top priority issues that we should be discussing as a House, if not as leaders. In the last few months, we have lost young girls in my community as reflected in the numbers that we are reading about in this country. The other week, we lost a young lady called Mercy in the middle Ndhiwa Town. The other week, we also lost a girl who had been murdered and the body dumped in a sugarcane plantation. We appreciate that His Excellency the President is leading a similar campaign, which we are looking forward to. It will energise us as women Members of Parliament (MPs) and all of us. Those are issues that makes us support this Motion because we are looking forward to bringing such issues to the floor of the House. Apart from the issues of femicide, the other day a patient was murdered in Kenyatta National Hospital and that is not the first time it is happening. These are issues we are looking forward to discuss. There are other issues that we have been keen on as leaders in this country, not limited to mysterious disappearances, deaths or abductions as we call them. Therefore, we need the SBC like yesterday to set the priorities that we are looking forward to discussing. As my colleagues have said, there is the issue of pending bills in counties. We all appreciated when devolution came in and there was economic life in our counties. We saw the boda boda and traders grow to be outstanding business people because they had done a lot of business with the counties and there was money flowing. However, with the pending bills piling up of late, we do not see that vibrancy in the counties. As we talk about the common topic that has been discussed concerning the Majority versus Minority, I am thinking like any other Kenyan. That as we struggle about who sits where, does it reflect on the services that we give to our people in the counties? Top of my agenda is the issue of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). As the Panel is sitting down to get us new Commissioners, I am looking forward to the establishment of this Commission, so that outstanding issues of boundaries can be sorted out, including those in my county."
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