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    "id": 393531,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kajwang",
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        "legal_name": "Gerald Otieno Kajwang",
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    "content": "this country. Therefore, somebody cannot come from nowhere, sit in a commission and speak as if she is the Minister for Finance, or the Head of State. When you listen to her, I have never seen such amount of arrogance, belligerence and condescending attitude to Members who have been elected by the people of Kenya. These days you can check on somebody quickly just to know where they went to school, what they did and so on. So, I checked and wondered who evaluated her job to make her earn beyond Kshs1 million. Who made her number one when she was number “something” in the interview? Which job is she evaluating because it is set out in the Constitution? First and foremost, these are very serious people. We set it up in Article 6 that the Government at the national and county level are distinct and inter-dependent and shall conduct their mutual relations on the basis of consultation and co-operation, not arrogance and belligerence. Who does she consult? Whom is she representing? Is it the national Government or herself at the Commission? These people were put there to get us where we wanted to go as a country. If you look at Chapter 11, Article 174 on Devolved Government, we said that we should give powers of self-governance to the people and enhance participation of the people in the exercise of the powers of the State and making decisions affecting them. We have given these people a job for self-governance. They are a government and yet you are saying that you are going to evaluate their job. Which job are you evaluating? Even we, as Members of Parliament, were not required to have degrees, form six certificate or P1 certificate. You are just required to be elected. One is only required to know a little Kiswahili and English languages. That is all that is required. So, how is Sarah Serem supposed to evaluate me with Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’- Nyong’o? Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o should be teaching, but he came here. So, if he came here, how are we supposed to evaluate him? Sen. (Dr.) Machage is supposed to be operating somewhere in Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), but he decided to come here. So, how is Sarah Serem supposed to evaluate, the time, the effort and the expertise of the job of a doctor, professor and hon. Otieno Kajwang? There is another doctor here. So, how are you going to evaluate him? The job is one; a representative of the people in the Senate or a representative of the people at the county assembly. Let me tell you, their job is everything. Legislation and oversight is mentioned here, but there are other things, including mortuary services."
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