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    "id": 549360,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "the National Assembly. If you look at the way this Bill has been drafted, it is in a manner to create two Committees of the Parliamentary Service Commission, one for the National Assembly and another for the Senate. The advantage here is to create an avenue for both Houses to have an entity that they can prosecute their matters uniquely affecting the different Houses. This is important. I would also like our colleagues in the National Assembly to look at it from that perspective when they debate this Bill; that bicameralism has been created for the good of the country. The system of checks and balances that come with a bicameral legislature are very important for this country, so that if one House is unable to look at a particular issue, the other House can do so. This is particularly on matters affecting counties. It is, therefore, ingenious and rightly so, that the king of Meru thought through a process of coming up with this Bill. We can then have a committee called the “Senate Committee” that will serve under and report to the Parliamentary Service Commission. This committee is important because there have been issues of experience which must have informed what Sen. Okong’o was talking about in terms of past relations for the last two years between us and the National Assembly. The reason for this is that it is only the wearer of the shoe who knows where it pinches. There is no better person to explain the difficulties and challenges of a Senator working for a constituency called a county, than a Senator who has served for the last two years. Our experiences are very clear. For me, Senator for Elgeyo-Marakwet County, it is unfortunate that the Constitution provides in Article 96 that I have a responsibility to oversight the county and look at its interests. On the other hand, when I come to Article 127, there are no specific mechanisms that have been created by the Parliamentary Service Commission to facilitate the Senator to deal with the functions that are provided for under that Article. Personal experiences would be very useful. Senators here will tell you. When you visit your county, you are expected to traverse it. Some counties have 12 constituencies like the one for Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale. 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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