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    "id": 699547,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Anyang'-Nyong'o",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I also rise to support this Motion and the Report of the Committee. I am glad that this evening my colleagues have made very strong presentations on pubic participation. I listened to Sen. Sang and Sen. Chelule emphasize the need for adopting the use of ICT in public participation. Beginning with this Senate, whenever we have had public participation, particularly those that we hold at the Kenya International Convention Center (KICC), the Senate mainly uses the print media to communicate to people that we will have public participation. If it goes further, it uses radio. That is the technology of the 1950s. Radios and newspapers have been there all these while. Now, we are in the era of internet and, in fact, even people in the rural areas get messages on their phones. Otherwise, they would not be buying or subscribing to all these services that Safaricom offers. I think we should encourage it, beginning with this Senate, that communication with the public is now online. There should be a Senate session online on Frequency Module (FM) stations, Twitter, WhatsApp among others so that you can communicate with the people through a medium that they have access to. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the typical way by which county governments get people into public participation is not for the governor to announce that there will be public participation on a market day in a place like Akala or Kombewa knowing that people will be at the market. The day chosen for public participation is completely wrong. This is because people have gone to the market that day for a completely different business which is commerce. Then, you want to divert the attention into public participation. You will find the lay-abouts that will pay attention and so on. In the County Governments Act, the structure of devolution went up to the village level. The village council is composed of five people one third of which must be of either 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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