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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mulu",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Benson Makali Mulu",
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    "content": "given this session our best in terms of contributions and quite a number of Bills have gone through. At the same time, it is important that I also appreciate what the leadership has done. During the last Session, new Members like me went through very hard times. In this Session, a number of things has improved. We must appreciate the leadership for considering the welfare of Members. A number of good things have happened during this Session. When the Leader of the Majority and the Leader of the Minority spoke, they highlighted what went on well. My background is monitoring and evaluation. I am a specialist in that area and it is important to mention some of the areas that we could improve. These are areas which frustrated some Members like me, who are new in the House. I am now in my second year. One of the things which happened, and this has happened about three times and I really got frustrated, was where a committee of this House spent a lot of time and public resources to go outside Nairobi to deliberate on important issues in this nation. When we come here to debate those issues, the Chair of a committee decide to withdraw some resolutions which had been made by the committee. That is an area that we need to work on, as the Members of this House. It becomes very bad when you spend national resources, time, agree on resolutions and when you come here, as a chairman, you decide, at your own time, to withdraw some proposals. That was quite bad. Hon. Speaker, the other thing we will need to look at, as House, when we come back is the way we relate with the Senate. There are two things which have happened; I thought if we had a better relationship things would not have worked that way. One of the issues is Division of Revenue Bill. You realize that we went all the way to mediation. As a result of that, we could not hit the timeframe. That also adversely affected the County Allocation Revenue Bill. Therefore, this is an area which as we move forward--- When we come back we will see how we can really reduce the time we take to sort out some of these things, which could just be easily sorted out, if we improved our own interaction with the Senate. Hon. Speaker, this recess will give us an opportunity to interact with our people. I am very excited to go and meet my people of Kitui Central. I am very happy that they gave me a chance to be in this House. During this time of recess, I will interact with them as I inspect development projects in the constituency. I will also share with them some of the experiences I have gone through, listen to some of their needs and see how we can move forward together. We have our clarion call there that: Pamoja Tunaweza . I want to make sure that we discuss issues together. The other thing is about giving us an opportunity as hon. Members of this House to visit each other. I have had the opportunity to learn a lot from those hon. Members who are serving their second term, like hon. Jamleck Kamau. We would ask them a few questions about how they were doing their things, and we have learnt a lot; this is something we should encourage. We should visit each and also share experiences. On the issue of the referendum, this is a right of Kenyans and they are entitled to it. What I would like to ask Kenyans, even as we engage in this serious exercise is, let us have national cohesion as a first priority. We have the referendum issue but at the same time bear in mind that we need to remain together as a country. Kenya must remain one and move forward. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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