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    "id": 808697,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emurua Dikirr, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Johana Kipyegon",
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        "legal_name": "Johana Ngeno Kipyegon",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I also wish to support this Motion. I also wish to state categorically that roles which were stated by the Constitution must be adhered to. The functions that the Constitution put upon us must be followed. You cannot purport to be doing that which is not provided for by the Constitution. If some of the Senators would want to feel like they want to participate in matters which concern the national Government they have freedom to come back to this House. For those of us who would want to have interest in doing things that concern counties, we have the freedom of moving to the other House. Where I want to differ with Members is that we must also understand that Senators are idle people and we need to give them more responsibilities. We need to make them move around the counties even if it is to oversee the MCAs or the governors. This is because they are very idle people. Otherwise, our interest will be in conflict with theirs. You hear them every other day summoning the Vice Chancellor of the University of Nairobi and you wonder what that has to do with the county governments. You will hear them summoning the CS for Foreign Affairs. We do not have ambassadors representing counties in this country. So, what do they have to do with them? So, I think we need to be fair enough to allocate them some money so that instead of being idle in Nairobi, they should go idling in the counties which they are supposed to be taking care of. I just want us to sit one day and make sure that we also look at how these people should be working because we also do not want them to be earning a lot of money and do nothing. We want them to be functional and working. Of course, you know, like my brother here was telling me, governors feel prejudiced whey they appear before the MCAs. They would want to feel big when they appear before the Senators. So, I think there is something that needs to be changed so that they can also feel comfortable appearing before Senators. Then let us do that so that we can make people comfortable, but what we want is proper representation. If Senators are representing counties, we also want value for the money which is sent to the counties. That one we need not The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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