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"content": "Order, Sen. Orengo! It is just courteous that if the Chair felt that your contribution was important enough to respond to, especially when the Chair is on his feet, the minimum you can do to demonstrate appreciation is to listen and to fight all threat to your ability to concentrate especially from Sen. Wako. First, I do not know which list you are referring to but the list before me, titled, The Republic of Kenya, the Senate, 11th Parliament, First Session, Division List and Delegations List, in this list all the delegations are listed. For example; Sen. Billow Adan Kerrow, Mandera County – one Member delegation; the Second delegation is Boy Juma Boy – Head of Delegation and others are Sen. (Dr) Zani Agnes Philomena. This is a two Member delegation from Kwale. As Sen. Wako used to say when he was the Attorney- General, “and so on and so forth”. Regarding the issue of voting, I want to take you to Article 98(1)(a) which says; “The Senate consists of 47 Members each elected by the registered voters of the counties, each county constituting a single member constituency.” I want you to underline the words, “a single member constituency”. This is the most important thing. Section (b), (c), (d) provide for other Members to the Senate. In terms of decisions of the Senate, it is provided for in Article 123 which says; “On election, all the Members of the Senate who are registered as voters in a particular county shall collectively constitute a single delegation” So, there is one elected and there is also one delegation, which agrees with your point of listing all Senators who are registered in a particular county as Members of that one delegation. It further says that for purposes of clause 4, which is about matters affecting counties, the Member elected under Article 98(1)(a) shall be the head of the delegation. So, I hope the head as confirmed by Sen. Ong’era is very clear, is the elected Senator. So, the question is: What happens to the rest like in the case of nominated Senators? The operational phrase here is that each county delegation shall have one vote to be cast on behalf of the county by the head of the county delegation or, in the absence of the head of delegation, by another member of the delegation designated by the head of the delegation. So, another Member of the delegation must be designated by the head of delegation. So, you may be present here, but if I have no instrument showing that, that power has been designated to you, in spite of all my sympathies, I will be unable and The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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