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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Karaba",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Dickson Karaba",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me this chance to contribute in support of the Motion before us today. Being a Special Sitting, it tells a lot to the nation that we are discussing crucial issues and matters of national importance. This was an ugly incident which occurred in the National Assembly. It is nasty and ugly in the sense that it tries to prove who is who in the jungle. Whereas, we know that it is the lion which is the king of the jungle. It is known elsewhere that there is no way the National Assembly can be ahead of the Senate. It is there in the United States of America (USA), Britain and many countries. That is the reason why sometimes we go for benchmarking out there. Many times, you hear that there is a group of parliamentarians going out to Japan, India, Britain and the USA for benchmarking. However, little is known when they come back. They do not put into practice whatever they learnt out there. When there is a war between two houses or bomas in a homestead, it is the grass which suffers. Now, what is here is as if there is a struggle between the National Assembly and the Senate. It is already manifested. It is as if the National Assembly which by the fact that they are many in numbers - they are 349 Members of Parliament - would like to be seen like they are the ones who have the say and that whatever they say is factual whereas it is not true. Little do they know that the Senate comprising of 47 elected and 20 Nominated Members, totaling 67, comprises of very senior minds. These are the minds which have been there in the past. Some of the Members of the Senate have been there. They are the ones who are the architects of the same House. I was there when the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) was crafted; we participated and formed the CDF as a Fund. Some of us have been here for years but what we are seeing is that in the National Assembly there are young men and women who are calling themselves honourable Members. Some of them do not even know much about what they are saying. They are passing laws which in the end will cost this country very great loss. I am saying so because, there are some issues that sometimes need “natural thinking” when it comes to passage of laws. Take, for example, the CDF. Even if the Supreme Court ruled out that it is unconstitutional, they went ahead to allocate themselves Kshs35 billion without knowing that there are some other very needy cases like the case of retired teachers. From 1997, the teachers have been crying to Parliament and the Senate to find out what happened to 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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