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    "id": 877047,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/877047/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Madam Temporary Speaker. As I reply I would like to thank the Senators that have contributed immensely to this Bill. I have a lot of notes with regard to improvements and what great inputs that the Senators have proposed. I would like to thank Sen. Murkomen for seconding me and giving quite a few suggestions for amendments, including audits of the health sector and how much counties are raising on source revenue. I also thank him for proposing that we include a reporting mechanism. I think that already exists, but we will make sure that we refine it and make it better. I would like to thank Sen. (Dr.) Zani for her very elaborate inputs with regard to inequalities, income structure and her proposals to have baselines to set where we are so we can track. Again, it is important for us to know where we are with regards to preservation of human dignity and enforcement of social economic rights in this country because every human being like Sen. Olekina has just said, deserves to be treated with dignity and to have basics that make him a human being. There is nothing as dehumanizing as not being able to have what is rightfully ours, the dignity as a human being. I have taken notes and we will definitely make sure that where this can be refined further, we will definitely do so. I would like to also thank Sen. Were for her inputs. She did propose a feedback mechanism through the Kenya National Human Rights Commission (KNHRC) plus the Ombudsman’s office. Those are very good suggestions. We will look at how then we are going to have feedback. This Bill seeks to make sure that we are accountable to the citizens of this country with regards to the socio-economic rights and give effect to Article 43 of the Constitution. We must make sure every human being is accorded the dignity that is inherent in him as human beings before anything else. As Kenyans, therefore, the services that they are supposed to get with regards to health, sanitation, water and all the basic rights that are guaranteed in our Constitution in the many Articles that Bill speaks to. They are many Articles 43, 19, 28, et cetera . This Bill has so many Articles in the Constitution that it sticks off and it becomes a very important one in that respect. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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