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    "id": 776122,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Act; the Public Service Commission has an Act; the Teachers Service Commission and, name them, have their own Acts. It is only the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) that does not have an Act for its administration. I think the Parliamentary Service Commission Bill will be introduced to the House soon. Through the commissioners, it will be approved by this House and we will deal with that matter. It is very shameful that Parliament spends time overseeing other organs and making laws for other commissions but, when it comes to its own law, we either seem not to be interested or are taken round by the parliamentary mandarins. Just like the way we have mandarins in the National Treasury, we have mandarins in Parliament who really frustrated the introduction of that Bill in the last Parliament until it died somewhere. They used ethnic caucuses and they used political leaders. I remember, one afternoon at the height of the election, one of the leaders in one of the biggest parties in Kenya called me and told me “please, just shelve that Bill until after the elections”. I asked him why and he said it is going to give us problems in some regions. This Bill is important to all of us. We want to know the tenure of officers in this Parliament; we want to know how offices are run; we want to know what the rights of a Member of Parliament (MP) are and; the rights of a member of staff. If members are approved, I urge them to work immediately and address all the challenges that are currently pending before it. One of the cardinal functions of the PSC is to look into the welfare of Members. How do you define welfare? Transport is welfare. A car grant is welfare. Security is welfare but it does not define whether security is from the National Police Service. Housing is welfare. One of the things these commissioners need look at, if they are approved, is why the mortgage of the Legislature should be pegged to five years. Why? Parliament can have a programme that even after five years, out of Parliament, one can still pay their mortgage. Cabinet Secretaries and Principal Secretaries are entitled to mortgages. Their houses are not sold when they are sacked. They are not told “pay today”."
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