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    "id": 1549222,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ogola",
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    "content": "Report that has given birth to one of the amendments that we are discussing today. This was very timely. Dialogue is encouraged even in our families. When we have challenges in our everyday lives, we should encourage sitting down together to make decisions as worrying teams. If dialogues are given a chance, something always comes that everybody is able to celebrate. Today, we are here discussing a result of that dialogue. It was good that the two teams came together. We continue to congratulate His Excellency the President and the former Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga, for taking that courage. One of the quotes that I like to read by Ruth Gordon says that courage is like a muscle. That it is only strengthened by use. It is for that reason that we celebrate these two gentlemen that came up with the sitting that brought forward the NADCO Report. We also celebrate the two thirds gender rule that was discussed and agreed on in the NADCO Report. We are calling on the two Houses to support it. Of course, we have discussed the two thirds gender rule in the Senate and a number of us supported it. However, political parties must do their part on it so that we can achieve the two thirds gender rule in this country. Another thing that was discussed in the NADCO Report was the formation of the panel of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). We have seen good prospects from that because a panel was set. In the last few days, we have seen interviews that have been carried by this panel. We saw the interviews that were conducted by this panel in getting the next Chairperson of the IEBC. We have also seen after the conclusion of the interviews of the Chairperson, we went ahead to see the interviews of the members of the Commission. All we are asking for as Kenyans is that when we finally get the results of these interviews for the Chairperson and the members of the IEBC, we would like to see a membership of a commission that reflects the face of Kenyans. We would like to see inclusivity, gender composition and even a youth represented at the Commission. All these were products of the NADCO Report. We also saw a concern on the cost of living in the NADCO Report. Of course, that still is a concern up to today. We would like to see a country where there is concern for the cost of living of its members. I support this amendment before us because there are timelines that have been set. We also see a fine where a person who without a reasonable cause fails to make this instrument within the required timeline. The fine that has been mentioned here is only Kshs500,000. I suggest that this should be increased to at least Kshs2 million or more. This is because there are a number of Acts of Parliament lying in shelves without implementation. It means some of these implementers have no goodwill on these Acts. Since I joined the Senate, I realised that the process of even getting an Act of Parliament from the start to the end is very costly and painful. When Parliament has gone to prepare an Act and it has gone to completion and even ascended to, there should be no reason it should lie in some shelf because an implementer of the Act of Parliament is not"
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