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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Ali",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, I wish to thank our lawyers led by Sen. Orengo. The National Assembly behaves in the manner that younger siblings do by making unnecessary noise and talking ill of the Senate. It is about time that the Senate stood up and told them off. Now that the Judiciary has supported the stand of the Senate, we should not allow any other entity from whichever angle to try and dilute the work of the Senate. The Senate has been empowered and with that, we should fight to ensure that we remain that way, if not enhance it. The BBI Report should strengthen the Senate. We should not go back on this decision by the Judiciary. The position of the Senate should be to go forward and not backwards. I sometimes get surprised to hear people say that certain Bills affected the national Government and not the counties. The national Government is made of the counties. The national Government cannot stand alone without the counties. Everything that happens in this country must start in the counties. The Senate has been too lenient on certain issues. We should stand firm when dealing with the National Assembly and deal with issues from there with all the force that we have and all the other forces that we can bring to our side. Sen. Shiyonga talked of the ‘lower House’ and I agree with her. The Senate Chamber was the first that we had after Independence. The National Assembly used to hold its sittings in this Chamber before the other House was built. This Chamber is the pioneer of everything. As pioneers, we should continue with our stand to make sure that things work out well. Some of us that were in Naivasha are aware that some of the clauses in the BBI Report are not very good. I hope that things will work out for the betterment of this country. We will support any issue that has to do with enhancing the Senate. We will not support anything that will downgrade the Senate. Madam Deputy Speaker, with those few remarks, I beg to support."
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