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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Director (MD); all you know is that these are leaders, and leaders are supposed to fix problems. Therefore, when you get to that point as things are in this country right now, what should be of primary concern to us, as legislators, is how much are we doing our work to the best of our abilities such that we ensure that that which is within our purview, as Members of Parliament, is done? Therefore, it is important that we enact such legislation, with very good proposals being prescribed here in this particular Bill, so that we ensure that the people who sit in these offices know that there is now a law. Perhaps I will be speaking to it later on, because the beauty of the law is that it sets out a framework of what the various levels of Government are supposed to do, but it does not suggest on what will happen to those who do not comply with the recommendations. Sen. Halake, psychologists have told us that human beings respond to either the carrot or the stick. If they are not responding to the carrot, which is what is being enshrined in our Constitution, then let us put in there a stick so that somebody knows that if I am a head of a county government and I do not ensure that I set in place policies to promote economic and social rights, this is what is likely to happen to me. The KNHRC should send in the reports that is being prescribed here, that they need to submit to the Houses of Parliament recommendations. Let them indict various heads of Government and parastatals; that the following head of this particular institution is not complying with the thinking and the recommendations that we are putting forward. Madam Temporary Speaker, for a society to be cohesive and for you to have a thriving society where people honestly believe that they are living a decent and happy life, economic and social rights must be guaranteed. You do not, as a country, just get to the Mohamed Bouazizi moments, where somebody sets himself up ablaze. It is by the slow by slow nature of denial of economic and social rights that somebody gets to a point where they reconcile with their minds and says that it no longer makes sense to live in this particular country."
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