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    "content": "I am glad that the National Police Service Spokesman, Mr. Kinoti, has said it today that anybody who has been assaulted or robbed in these protests should file a formal complaint. We want the Police to also stop sleeping. Businessmen and children are being harassed. We want to provide jobs for our people, yet they are being harassed and robbed. Those are crimes. Those people who are protesting do not even know what we are discussing today. They are criminals who should be behind bars. Going into the subject of this Bill, I would like to start by saying that Parliament is correctly within its mandate to amend these laws. We listened to the judgement of the Supreme Court and have studied it thoroughly. The most popular statement used by judges in court when making rulings is that nothing would have been easier than for Parliament to provide for A, B, C and D. Nowhere in the ruling of the Supreme Court did they suspend the operations of Parliament until a fresh election is held. We have had calls from the international community, bishops and others that we need to do these laws in a bipartisan manner. I support what they are saying. It would have been very good for us all to sit down and discuss these issues. We were elected to Parliament. ‘Parliament’ comes from the word ‘ parler’; to talk. I can see my friend, Sen. Olekina. You were elected by the people of Narok County to come into the hallowed Chambers of the Senate to discuss and register even your disagreement. I am sure that when you were campaigning you did not say that you would represent them in the streets of Nairobi and outside the Anniversary Towers. This is the place. Where you do not agree, the most respectable thing to do is to register your disagreement. We have been willing and we have reached out. I heard the Senate Majority Leader asking them to give names of Members they would wish to serve in this Committee. As Jubilee, we will only have a majority of one in the Committee. This is because four Members will come from NASA and five will come from Jubilee. When we previously sat, and the Senate Deputy Majority Leader, Sen. Dullo, will tell you that there are certain amendments that were originally in the Bill that we are looking at which we said that it is, probably, not right. We have amended many. The version of the Bill that has come out from the National Assembly has taken those changes into account. If we decide to abscond our duty, on whom does our obligation to create a bipartisan setting lie? Is it the person who shows up to work or the person who decides not to show up? We need perspective. We need to be very clear that the people who are destroying this country, the people who are not giving Kenyans a bipartisan platform to engage are in NASA and not Jubilee. If they are ready even today, we will take their names, sit with them and---"
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