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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, that subject was dispensed with long time ago. It was not part of the issues that were on the Floor. Being a senior person who has been here serving a second term, he should have known the procedure. That is why in his second term, he should not be making certain mistakes and attempting to confuse the Speaker. Now that I am being requested to keep it brief, I was at the point where I was saying that as Senate, the Senate Business Committee needs to prioritize certain legislation and certain businesses this time round, for example, businesses that are related to oversight of the counties. I was making this point because there is an outcry out there that members of the public feel like the Senate needs to do more to ensure that the resources that are given to the counties are felt by the common mwananchi . In that regard, I was making this case that the question of the Senate Oversight Fund is something we do not want to debate forever. We must bring it to a closure. We have had so much criticism from the National Assembly, the Executive at the national level, opinion leaders and so forth. When we brought the solution that makes the office of the Senator capable and able to deliver on the mandate of the Senator of oversight of thecounties, many people chickened out and started saying that giving Senators money will make them politically strong and so forth, yet the amount of money that is being requested by Senators is nothing compared to the resources that are available for all the other elective offices to carry out their constitutional mandate. Kenyans made a decision that they wanted the office of the Senator and the Senate to function. It cannot be difficult for Kenyans themselves to fund that office to deliver on the mandate that was given to this very important office of the Senate. The most urgent Bills that this House will have to deal with are related to matters of pension of county staff. That law has been pending for a long time. We were unable to complete that law during the last term. There are also others, like the Bill related to roads and the sharing of the Road Levy between the counties and the national Government and the Bills related to matters of Deputy Governors. I am going to soon introduce in this House a Bill that has already been published with regard to how to replace a vacant office of a Deputy Governor knowing that the Deputy Governor of Nairobi left office a few months ago. The office of the Deputy Governor of Nyeri County is vacant by virtue of the Deputy Governor ascending to the office of the Governor. That law will be brought to this House hopefully - if the Senate Business Committee approves - by tomorrow or the day after, so that we can have functioning county governments in the two counties."
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