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    "id": 800217,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this Motion because it is extremely important. I understand the passion with which the Senator for Nakuru County has picked up this matter. When you replay the scenes that led to this unfortunate event, you will see ordinary Kenyans who were sleeping in their tiny shacks, worrying about the tribulations that they face in life, and before they knew it, more trouble befell them. Those who were lucky to survive had their households swept away and some even had dead family members. They do not have a voice and have no one to speak out for them. The people in authority do not seem to care so much about it because, ordinarily, they are ‘nobody.’ Time has come for us, parliamentarians, to rightly stamp our authority and do that which concerns the people who voted for us to come to this House, and speak to the very matters that affect their lives on a daily basis. This is an extremely timely Motion and I hope that our colleagues who have been granted an opportunity to serve in this Select Committee will do justice to it by going to the root of the problems that are being raised. Disasters continue to happen every day. Last weekend it was a building in Huruma that tumbled down. Despite tens of buildings tumbling down in this City, not a single engineer has ever been charged for negligence or for approving or allowing the construction of a building without proper legal channels being followed. It is my sincere hope that our colleagues, who will serve in this Committee, will make far-reaching recommendations and give us a document that can be quoted years down the line. The document should be one that people will say that it was during the time of the Twelfth Parliament that a Committee of the Senate was constituted, which led to the end of manmade disasters in this country. People must be charged for negligence and brought to book. The people who approved the construction of this dam and those who were supposed to send the early warning signals but slept on the job must face the law. Unfortunately, on many occasions, we, as legislators, obsess ourselves with matters which we consider to be more important to us than those facing the people who elected us to this House. There are many things that I would have wished to say, but I know that there is a lot of interest from my colleagues. I will leave it at that and hope that justice will be done to the victims of the Solai disaster. 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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