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"content": " Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, Sir. I do not know why Sen. Cherarkey is complaining, and the only time he goes to Kisumu County is when he is arrested and is being taken to the police station, unlike me, who is in Kisumu County every week. I would like to welcome our good colleagues and neighbours from Kisumu County Assembly. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would have taken offence if you had not allowed me this opportunity. In these days of memes, one of the famous memes on TikTok is a young man who is in a public van and he keeps on asking the driver, “ Tumefika Kericho?” I am told that they can easily tell the people of Kisumu when they get to Kericho because of various, many other things. I celebrate what the County Assembly is doing. This House, the Senate of the Republic of Kenya, should never tire of training and capacity building all our 47 county assemblies to bring them to the stature and capacity of the Senate, because that is our constitutional duty, and we cannot pass on that responsibility to any other House, including the National Assembly. My view is that their perception and understanding of devolution and our devolved institutions is a bit skewed. Therefore, I take pride as a Member of this House, each time we have a visiting delegation from our county assemblies of various committees, leadership of those Houses, coming here to learn. I know the competence of the staff and personnel that we have in the Senate of the Republic of Kenya, and I know that during their time of interaction, they get to learn, not just as Members, but even members of staff that accompany them. They interact with us, from their Serjeant-at-Arms with our Serjeant-at-Arms, their members of secretariat with our members of secretariat, and Members. I wish we could do more. I am not so much abreast with what happened in our committees, but when I used to serve in committees, occasionally we would have Members of county assemblies being allowed to sit with us in our counterpart committees as we transact Business. If it is a Committee on Health, they would sit with us in the Senate Standing Committee on Health, interact, learn and appreciate how we transact our Business. There are times that we also had to learn from them on some of their better refined procedures than what we have here in the Senate. That is the architecture and the design of our Constitution that these two institutions relate that way. Therefore, with that regard, I celebrate the visiting delegation from Kisumu County Assembly. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will be brief on the topic of the mediated version of the Division of Revenue Bill. First, I would like to celebrate the Members of the Senate that served in this Committee. They gave a very good account of ourselves as a House. I was proud every afternoon or evening when I tuned into the television and watched the arguments and counter arguments from both sides of the Mediation Committee, but I particularly felt proud as a Senator because of the good work that the team that we sent did. I know we The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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