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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orwoba",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. This afternoon I rise to add my voice to the various statements, the Energy Committee statement and the Budget and Finance Committee statement. Before I go into any issue, I want to remind Kenyans and the Members of this House that the Senate does a lot of work. We do a lot of thorough investigations and inquiries. We put together reports and submit them on the Floor of the House. We debate the reports and then adopt as work output. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to remind the Members of this House that we have certain issues that we have deliberated on and placed reports. We had the Shakahola issue which was very controversial. We went down to the grassroots level, did investigations, the committee tabled a report, we adopted the recommendations, the report is there. The Committee on Energy have given a summary of their work. They also dealt with the explosion in Mradi, where lives were lost. They have given the recommendations and tabled the reports. You remember the issue of Governor Natembeya and his deputy that was at that time a very serious issue for the people of Trans-Nzoia County. The report is here, tabled. We had Members of this House going to the USA to follow on the victims of the 1998 bomb blast. We even had budgets for them. They went to the USA, spoke to victims. Recommendations were put and the report was tabled. Nobody is asking why nothing is being done after tabling the reports. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, even as we are interrogating all these reports by the Budget and Finance Committee and the Energy Committee and all other committees, is our work here in Senate, the ‘Upper’ House, to just table reports? We have continuously asked that we be given a committee to follow up on the implementation of all the reports that we have in this House. That way we can even know whether the victims of the Mradi explosion, which the Energy Committee has told us is here, were actually taken care of. It saddens me, as a Member of this House, that all our work will be filed in the basis or in the form of a report and the legacy of this House is just reports that are being tabled. Will we continue to sit and table reports or are we actually going to push that we become part of the implementation of these reports?"
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