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    "content": "However, for as long as we have the twin-track role of a Member of Parliament, in that you are a legislator but what makes you to come to this House is your role of a glorified social worker, where you attend those funerals and Harambees, then people see that you do not have connection. In fact, they will tell you very clearly that we do not eat laws. What is that law about? I want to say it on the Floor of this House without fear of doubt that hon. Chepkong’a lost the election because of working too hard for Kenya and the Jubilee Government. That is what cost him the position, including his own Vice Chairperson, hon. Nyokabi, the former women representative for Nyeri County. I am glad that hon. Nyokabi is now a commissioner in the Gender and Equality Commission. Therefore, we owe it to ourselves as Members of this august House to have one of our own just like we had Dr. Abdullahi to also sit in the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC). He is a shoe-wearer, he knows the challenges that we undergo and he knows what it means to be a real Member of Parliament and yet lose the support of the electorate, fairly or unfairly. I support him. Let him go and ensure that we get the facilitation that we require. We require the Senate to do its oversight role and that fund is very critical. We pay our staff meagre salaries because the resources that we are given to pay them are not enough. The systemic discrimination of Members of Parliament who represent special interest groups cannot go out of the purview of the PSC. It cannot be that the PSC gives us half the amount of money to pay our own workers that is given to others. It cannot be that we are given mileage to only cover where you come from, your county, as if you represent that county, which has an elected Senator. We have a mandate to represent the whole country but we are not facilitated to do our job. This Senate has only two Senators, a man and a woman, representing persons with disabilities. Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve and I are supposed to cover the whole country but we have no capacity because there is no facilitation. These are some of the issues that we need to look at for us to become effective; for people to see that there is meaningful representation in this august House. With those many remarks, I support and wish that this matter be expedited for the new commissioner to take up his appointment. I second."
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