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    "id": 917016,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Nuh",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2840,
        "legal_name": "Junet Sheikh Nuh",
        "slug": "junet-sheikh-nuh"
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    "content": "Constitution – and I am not making it up - they should have a standing committee on refuse collection and animal husbandry. Why are they shying away and those are very important functions that this country requires? Our country is full of solid waste and you are feeling shy to form a committee on refuse collection and animal husbandry or a committee on cemeteries and crematoriums. Why feel shy if those are the services that Kenyans need? I wish I was serving in the Senate! I would have been the chairman of refuse collection and garbage disposal committee. Honestly speaking, so as to clean up the City. Look at the kind of suffering that we go through because of lack of garbage collection. Then somebody is feeling shy to be the chair of the garbage collection committee in the Senate. I want to tell the Senate that this cannot be allowed to go on. The Senate is claiming that they can summon anybody as per the Constitution. As the other Members have said, what business do they have with functions which are not devolved? This matter must be put to rest because if we continue like this… Actually, one of the reasons why I support a constitutional amendment in this country is the Senate. My view is that the Senate should be scrapped and nobody should bother or harass me. If you look at other devolved democracies and jurisdictions, the Senate is a club of membership of eminent persons who only sit quarterly – that is three times a year - and come up with a resolution that helps govern the country. They are like advisors to the President. Not this Senate which is running around everywhere claiming to be involved in everything. The other day, they were investigating why Kenya Airways (KQ) is collapsing. What county money is in KQ? They do not even have airstrips where KQ planes can land. They are investigating an airline which does not even fly to their county. In the Migori Airstrip, only a small aircraft can land. Then, the Senator is seated here saying: “We are investigating KQ”. This is a shame. It is not that we are trying to demean them. Some of us might become senators and we must stick to our roles as enshrined in the Constitution. My last point is that the Senators have said that they are going to court and take all the Bills which were passed in this House. Which Bills? People participate in law-making and Bills are enacted properly through this House. My parting shot is that if the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) does not stop paying emoluments, allowances to those masqueraders who are calling themselves leaders, I will go to court to stop this. If you are masquerading and earning allowances for no work and positions that do not exist in the Constitution…"
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