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    "id": 994075,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "As you can see, many Senators want to come to the House but we are only designating 28, and those 28 who were designated are not coming. I would urge the Senate Business Committee (SBC), which I heard on the news that I am going back to, to review this matter. This is because it is such an important Bill that is needed now during the pandemic. It is taking us more than 14 days just to put the question and to go to the Committee of the Whole. We finished our work. We have listened to people. We have so many amendments. We have heard Senators. Senators have come and spoken to us. Members of the National Assembly, believe it or not, have come to our Committee with proposals. The Law Society of Kenya, health sector players, labour industry players, the Central Organization of Trade Unions (COTU), teachers and schools, but we cannot have 24 delegations to put the question. Last week, when we were talking about the changes in leadership, I asked Sen. Kang’ata to know that he is filling in big shoes One of the 48 laws of power is to never fill in the shoes of a successful person. As we are already seeing, we need more effort. Sen. Kihika can please help him a bit with a tutorial, but that is on a light note. Madam Temporary Speaker, in relation to this issue, I really urge Senators, please, go through that Bill. This country needs it, let us pass it. Please, come in numbers next Tuesday, we do the Second Reading, put the question, then we do the Committee of the Whole. Then we will take it to the National Assembly. We have already spoken ahead to them. They have even taken some of our proposals in some of the things that they have been passing. There is goodwill. The Government is waiting for this. Let us do it. Madam Temporary Speaker, on this area, we deliberated extensively on issues relating to socio-economic, protection of vulnerable groups, including persons living with disability, persons employed in the informal sector and persons living in informal settlements."
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