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    "id": 1167718,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "The other very important thing that I will always remember is that when I stood next to you, in my maiden speech, I committed to ensure that we liberate the Mau forest. I am happy that during my time as a Senator I fought so hard to ensure that we preserve our environment and to make sure that we at least continue respecting dignity of the people who live there. I know that was very emotional. I can see some of my colleagues nodding. Maybe I have given them beef so that they can hit me back. It is something I am very proud of. I am proud that during my term as a Senator and if God is kind enough to be able to allow the people of Narok County to vote me back, I shall continue to ensure we continue preserving our forests. Today, the people of Trans Mara, either Trans Mara West or Trans Mara East enjoy ample rainfalls. That is all courtesy of the work that we did or I did to ensure we protect the Mau forest. Victory is the only thing that all of us are looking for here. I know that when we are going into the elections in the next few months, all sides will be fighting for victory. I hope that Kenyans will be kind to give His Excellency Raila Amollo Odinga an opportunity to lead this country and to give us an opportunity to take this country into greater heights. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I listen to you, you reminisced of the time when we sat here looking at you with bad eyes. I remember certain comments that we made which may not have been very pleasant and I hope that you too will have it in your heart to forgive us. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I remember I said very nasty things to you and then one day you sent me a text and you said: “I am human.” I would like to request that you forgive me for that moment because it was done due to my commitment. When I swore to defend the Constitution of Kenya, I also swore to fight for freedoms and liberties of our people. During this period when I served as the second Senator of Narok County, there are things that I wish I would have been able to do for my people to ensure that I oversight 100 per cent all the resources which are deposited in the County Revenue Fund. However, because of the challenges that we have had, it has become very difficult for Senate to oversight on own source Revenue. I too do hope that in future, Senate can be empowered to oversight 100 per cent on all the resources that are consumed in the county governments. It becomes a big challenge and I think it is imperative that we are able to put together the resources that are collected from our counties and the resources that we send from the national Government all the way to the counties. The way things stand, the role of the county assembly, the role of the Members of County Assembly (MCAs) versus the role of the Senators is something that needs to be completely clarified so that even people in our counties are able to understand where our mandate starts and ends. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we had very interesting times. One was during the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) debate. One of the things that I hope for is that the future Senates will continue defending Article 123 of the Constitution which guarantees voting by delegation. When you just allow everyone to vote, sometimes it loses meaning because this is indeed the House of union. It does not matter whether you have 1 million voters, you have a maximum of 70,000 voters or 100,000 voters like the County of Lamu."
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