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"content": "Sessional Paper No.3 on the National Lands Policy, which was talking about addressing historical injustices from 1895, just because that is when Kenya became a British protectorate. Then I questioned myself loudly; who was living where in 1895? Then, who will come out, really, using the legal procedures that we are now putting in place to actually begin demanding land of ancestral existence from 1895? Of course, I was accused of hate speech and I was thrown in for saying the truth and interpreting a national policy paper. That is exactly what is happening; the draconian legislation that we see now was planned, and intended to be. I am not surprised! We are now talking about our midwifed baby that was born; it is hardly three months old and the baby is being strangled. These things were written in black and white right in our Constitution! We forgot that the law is like a scorpion, you have to check not only where the head is, but also be careful of where the tail is as it strikes when you are not very much aware. I remember when Sen. Orengo and the rest were fighting for our freedom now, they did come up with laws that were supposed to actually tie and throw somebody out of power. Those laws were put in black and white on paper and they are now hitting the Government, and hitting very hard. Indeed, Madam Temporary Speaker, this Committee is long overdue, but there was nothing Sen. Orengo could have done because this is the opportunity that this Committee has to be given the mandate to look at some of these laws and especially so those involving the Provincial Administration. Actually to think loudly, we are having a parallel government sort of situation at that level. We are having the National Assembly with that role right down to the grassroots, duplicating the role of the Government right from the county level. Who is financing that? Is it necessary to have double roles? The governor will have his own sub-county commissioner, blah, blah, blah, up to the village level; and then you have the District Commissioner with his district officers, chiefs and headmen up to that level, all consuming government resources. Is it necessary? So, really, Madam Temporary Speaker, I request that this Committee not only looks at the particular Provincial Administration laws, but they should also open up their horizon of mandate and look at all the existing – not only laws, but also – current policies that are actually managing the day to day existence of the government. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is no wonder these deficiencies of saying: “Okay, the provincial government shall be restructured to conform to the county government;” the word is “shall,” but they did not say that the provincial administration will be inferior. Look at that; they have not said that the provincial administration will be inferior to the county government. We have to look at a way of circumventing that because, okay, we are restructuring to conform and we have decided now to be above the governor. The law gives the mandate; the law gives the latitude. In my own layman’s understanding, we have to come up with proper clauses that will catapult what we want properly, especially in the protection of the county government system as dreamt of and envisaged by what we wanted in the Constitution. That must be done because it is our role as the Senate to do that. Whether we have hiccups or not, let us speak loudly and put it in black and white so that Kenyans can listen. They are listening to us and we shall succeed. Thank you. I support. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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