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    "id": 874129,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "we can ventilate on this important programme, where everybody will be able to ask questions. During that day, Sen. Cheruiyot who brought the question, should be called and each one of us should also be given an opportunity to make a decision on whether we will come or not. This is because it is important.When we are doing this work, some of us who are lawyers are being pushed by the public to give guidance on issues that are related to right to privacy. Some of the information that we are being told is that we did not need to spend billions of shillings for information that already exists. I also saw a Tweet from the Immigration Department which I thought was unfortunate because someone tried to insinuate that you will not get public service – although they wrote there “Government service” – but it is public service; that one will not be entitled to public service because he does not have that number. Serving citizens of this Republic under the Constitution of Kenya, Chapter Four, as a right is not predicated on a number. It is still possible that some people may not have that number. All these questions are very important for us, as a Senate, and must be taken very seriously and particularly the relationship between this number and whether or not we will still have the census. If the argument is that we will collect data for everybody, is it then necessary for us to say we are waiting for the census to be done? The verifiability of these issues, the transparency that goes with it---, I challenge the Senate that we have a great opportunity – like I said last week – to deal with these issues of registration, census, and boundaries. It all starts with how we take seriously programmes that are labeled like this. I thank Sen. Cheruiyot and request that when you order the Committee to do so or even if you do not order here, I am sure the relevant Committee would have heard what we have said. They should be able to invite all of us and the CS so that we can ventilate on these important issues."
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