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"content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, as much as we have been advised not to make reference to the debate in the Lower House, I think I must respond to a thing or two. It was totally out of order for anybody to imagine that a Member of this Senate is in his or her retirement. For those who are here, there is no doubt, indeed, that we have just began. In fact, this is our first electoral contest and we were audacious enough to run for the office of the Senate. We made it as Senators in our respective counties. I can mention a number of Senators here who are at the prime of their careers. I think it was ill-advised for them to perpetuate a perception that we have fought, deliberately, over the last couple of months to try to dissuade. I made this remark when I was in Mombasa, that, I have had, probably, some of the best four months in public service since I started off as a Senator in this House. I think everybody here has shown some level of astuteness, character, intellect and diligence that is incumbent upon every Senator in this Republic. Just to remind them, some of them must have come from the ODM party and other parties affiliated to the CORD Coalition. When they were paying their nominations fees, it was deliberate that those who were running for the Senate position would pay Kshs250,000. Those who were running for the National Assembly posts paid Kshs100,000 because the parties were persuaded that these were lower cadre political offices. I do not see why I would pay Kshs250,000 to run for a much junior seat instead of paying Kshs100,000 for a much more senior seat."
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