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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "on the Order Paper. However, the Committee deliberated and agreed that since this Bill has come from the National Assembly, we can still proceed with it. We have had public participation and we are retreating as a Committee to do our report on this specific one so that we do not ignore it yet there is still need for a Bill to be passed for the same purposes. We decided to be pragmatic in as much as we are very upset that the National Assembly - which is something I have said on record - chose to bypass this Bill, not for any good reason and not because it was a money Bill or anything. In fact, they said that it is not a money Bill. It is not for the difference in content; it is the same content but it is possibly because of disdain towards the Senate. We said that in the bigger interest, since it is the same thing that we have done, instead of us waiting to finish ours which is still in abeyance, to go again to the National Assembly to start at First Reading, Second Reading and Committee Stage to come back here, the person suffering in the ego fight would be the workers. Therefore, since this one has gone through the process, Members will vote on the specific provisions and if they feel it is a bad Bill, they are at liberty to drop it and go on with ours, which is still the same Bill. The same applies if Members feel that we need to reduce the time being spent on it. Many county governments owe workers billions of shillings. For example, Nairobi County owes workers Kshs16 billion. They are using it as an excuse saying that the Senate has failed to provide a legal framework for them to pay. So, let us deny them that excuse and deal with the Bill which will be faster if the content is the same. Sen. Were will have time as a ranking, royal Member of my Committee to go through the variances that might exist between this and what we had done before."
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