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    "id": 772627,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker Sir. I rise to support this important Motion. As I do so, I am disappointed that what I thought would be a practice that we left in the last Senate has continued and persisted. I begin to wonder whether if that is the position taken by the National Assembly and we have not done anything about it on two important Bills. One of them is The Physical Planning Bill, 2017. The National Lands Commission sent The Physical Planning Bill, 2017 to us which is in consonance with the Constitution; then another one is sent to the National Assembly which is obviously being fast-tracked. The second one is on The Computer and Cyber Crime Bill. I am the one who drafted the Computer and Cyber Crimes Bill, 2017. As we go and retreat to discuss the business we bring to the Floor of this House, I would hate to sit in a committee where our work will be merely academic. We will be sitting to approve Motions and Bills by these good Senators and all of them will end up in a dustbin of history like it was in the last Senate. Hon. Senators, the number of Bills that ended up being signed into law is less than seven Private Members Bills. It is actually five. Each Senator had a Bill. Unless we can assure these Senators that we will sit in that Committee to get law in place, then I am afraid that committee will be doing what the last committee was doing; pushing paper. I would hate history to record me as one Member who pushed paper for the sake of it. If we cannot get our Bill assented to, then there is something wrong with this leadership. Secondly, I propose that the rulings that were done in the last Senate should be somewhere on the Clerks Table so that the Members who have joined us and those who were here previously can make references to them. The HANSARD records many things that we do here. So, I would urge that we spent some money and have hose HANSARD copies here, together with these laws and many other reports that people can refer to. Thirdly, one of the committee rooms in County Hall, now has beautiful i-Pads, that is where the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) sits because they love themselves more that they love us. It is us who take them there. We must tell you. They have put beautiful i-Pads for quick reference. You would imagine that the first place you would have such gadgets is here where we can make quick reference to the Constitution. Every time I label my Constitution and the Standing orders, they disappear. Those gadgets must be here. We must tell the PSC that they sit there on our behalf. Some of them do not like when I say it, but then I must say it. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this House and particularly this building and where we sit, including inside the gate, we are the only people in this country who can say and do whatever we want within the precints of Parliament. We are protected by law; nobody will sue you, you will not be arrested and nobody will refer to the statement you have made. We have all the freedoms. However, when the police, like they did last week,"
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