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    "id": 622252,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I also wish to thank the residents of Bukhayo Central Ward for approaching the Senate. I concur with my colleague, Sen. Musila, that this is evidence of failure in primary oversight. We set up county assemblies to interrogate and be the voice of the people on some of these basic matters. We need to make it our business as a Senate to upgrade the capacity of our county assemblies so that they are in a better position to deal with some of these issues so that the Senate is not flooded with many issues. Yesterday, in my home county, Homa Bay County, there was a very furious fight that erupted in the County Assembly. In as much as we put metal detectors at the entrances of some of these assemblies, we also need to put detectors of pepper because someone went into the assembly with pepper and sprayed it all over other people. That tells you the kind of activities that take place in some of these assemblies. So, we need to make it our business to improve the capacity and upgrade our county assemblies to deal with serious matters. Finally, regarding the Standing Orders, we need an “ Okoa Senate” kind of initiative. When a petition is brought here, we comment on it for 30 minutes. When the Committee processes that petition and brings its report, debate on it is restricted to 20 minutes. When the Committee submits its report, debate on it is restricted to 20 minutes at the pleasure of the Speaker. I would rather we had more time to debate the report of the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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