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    "id": 840113,
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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": " Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I want to thank you for giving me this opportunity to reply to this Bill. We are on the Second Reading and I want to say something that I have always emphasized in this Senate. All the issues that have been raised are important and welcome but we must vote and pass the Bill in the Second Reading. Otherwise, all the concerns that you have raised will be useless if we do not pass the Bill in the Second Reading. I want to challenge Senators to interrogate the procedure of the Standing Orders. If you do not pass the Bill in the Second Reading, all the things that we have said here will only be good for the books because the Bill will then go straight to mediation and that means that it will only be decided by four people yet we will have to pass it. However, if we pass it at the Second Reading, for it to go to the Committee Stage, we can accommodate the changes that we are all trying to propose. That is a critical thing and I wish that most of the Senators would listen to this. Unless the Bill is passed at the Second Reading stage, all that we have said will be beautiful things. However, if it passes the Second Reading, we will all go to the Committee Stage. We should pass it just the way we agreed to pass all the Bills on roads, physical planning and the Bills that are related to ownership. I have no doubt in my mind that this Bill will pass in the Second Reading for it is the only way to facilitate an interrogation of the Bill at the Committee Stage. Secondly, there are things that are good to express, converse and even wish for. I have heard some people say that 40 per cent or 50 per cent should go to the counties, but it is not possible. I like being frank. The national Government did not want to go beyond 10 per cent and they will be happy if we return that section for negotiation for they will perhaps find a way of taking it back to the figures that they were looking for. We must also appreciate that we are the Senate. We are not just speaking for purposes of going on record. We are speaking because this Bill makes the oil sector better managed than the existing legal framework. There are some people who will be happy for this Bill to ultimately fail so as to have the confused legal regime that exists at the moment continue, yet there are issues that we are trying to resolve. There was this feeling that if we fail this Bill, we will punish the majority side or somebody will learn from us. This is intricate for it is based on the Procedures and Standing Orders. If it happens, we fall back to zero. What is our solution, going forward? Any person who has issues should draft it and give it to the Committee. The working of the Senate Committee Stage is so detailed that if everybody is to bring the amendments independently, we will be confused in the process for everything goes into a Division. Lobbying to get the 24 delegation for every amendment will become difficult when one person brings one amendment and the other person also does the same. The neater way of going about it is for any person who has spoken on the Floor of the House, who is not necessarily a Member of the Committee; for they did not have an opportunity to submit the concerns that they have, is to prepare those amendments and take them to the Committee for processing purposes. In a situation where we will have 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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