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    "id": 963245,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ochillo-Ayacko",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 347,
        "legal_name": "Ochilo George Mbogo Ayacko",
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    "content": "If it is an avenue or a street, that is an open place. You could walk there with your children and meet with other people. Other people who are associated with that city or town may be proud that the person after whom this street is named is a person they associate with. If you go to the State of Illinois in the USA, there is a town called Springfield where virtually every street is named after President Lincoln. You will find vehicles and buildings called Lincoln. Everything there, is named after Lincoln. When you are in that city called Springfield in Illinois you will know that once upon a time, there was a great person that was revered and lived in that place called Abraham Lincoln. These are the kind of things we want our counties to do so that they think beyond the register and many things. There should be awards that are given for exemplary service. So, if perhaps, you are a distinguished public servant in that place - and there are many ways of recognizing exemplary public service - there would, probably, be an award that is called Sen. Wambua Award. That would motivate people to aspire to do what Sen. Wambua did. I believe Sen. Wambua is a great Senator. He has a long way to go, but he has also travelled far. I hope Kitui County will get an award and name it after Sen. Wambua so that public servants and aspirants in Kitui County will work towards that. Madam Temporary Speaker, another limitation I recognized in this Bill, is that it confers upon a select Committee made up of the Clerk of the Assembly and some other people, the responsibility of identifying the people to be recognized. The recommendation from this select committee is supposed to reach the governor. My understanding is that this may be a political process. If it is a political process, the straightjacket in which the Clerk’s departments are always subjected to, may visit that department with too much tension. It would have been better if this Bill had indicated that after doing that, the names are tabled before the Assembly so that they can be sanitized politically. Hence when it is presented to the governor for gazettement, the Assembly may have ventilated whatever political feeling require to be ventilated. Madam Temporary Speaker, I loathe to imagine a situation where the conservative office of the Clerk is subjected to a very partisan debate. That debate should be carried out on the floor of the assembly so that when it goes to the office of the governor and office of the Clerk, these committee members are not subjected to the tough and partisan debate that only politicians can withstand. That is the limitation that the Mover of this Motion should had have in mind and try to deal with and protect the panel that will be selecting people to this position. Madam Temporary Speaker, there is a further limitation that I recognized in this Bill and that is the limitation that confers upon the governor the authority to deregister or remove an inductee to this Hall of Fame due to certain misgivings. A situation may arise that is untenable that may make it desirable to remove somebody’s name from that list. However, it is important to have a process of a hearing. This Bill does not provide for a 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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