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    "id": 508273,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ong’era",
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        "legal_name": "Janet Ongera",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise to oppose this Motion. It saddens me that we would be talking about going for recess. Despite being alive to the fact that we have a calendar that we had all agreed to in the RBC, however, when we made this calendar which is almost a year ago, certain things have occurred in this country that necessitate us to stay a little bit longer before we can go for recess. We had about 39 Bills that we needed to have dealt with. Out of these Bills, we have only been able to deal with 11of them. Today you saw the undesirable manner in which we conducted Business. We did not even have enough Members to enable us pass the National Police Service (Amendment) Bill (Senate Bill No.29 of 2014). It forced one of our distinguished Senators to adjourn debate on two very important Bills that we needed to deal with and, here we are now rushing to go for recess. It really saddens me that at a time when we are speaking about insecurity in this country, insecurity is so rampant. There are many incidents of banditry, terrorism, our women are being stripped left, right and centre, in the streets. We have not been able to resolve these issues. You noted that when we put a lot of pressure on the national Government, it is only the other day that we saw them making changes which I think were too little, too late. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have pending statements that we have raised, particularly about the welfare and the state of our maize farmers in the north Rift and other parts of this country. These statements have not been answered. As I speak, our famers’ maize is actually outside granaries. Some is even rotting because of the heavy rains in the north Rift. This is simply because they are not able to take their maize to the National Cereals Board (NCPB). We are told that some “fat cats” imported a lot of maize from Uganda and stored it in at the NCPB. It is a pity that we are going on recess without having resolved some of these issues. Even as we say that Senators, particularly the elected ones are going to their respective counties to do work, our Senators do not even have the County Development 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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