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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sang",
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Kipyego Sang",
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    "content": "this kind of a Motion, but also engage one of the committee of the Senate which will pick up this matter and follow it to the logical conclusion. It is very important because most of the MCAs are learned people. In my county, for example, I have an MCA who has a masters’ degree and he represents Kaboi- Kaptumo Ward. There is another one who is clearing his masters degree. These are people who are learned. So, we cannot demean the status of elected offices. If you look at the tendencies of SRC, I think they are working towards demeaning the status of political and elective offices. I do not think we need to do that. We are representatives of the sovereignty of the people. The sovereignty of the people is exercised through elected leaders. At the county level, we have the Senator, the Governor and the Women Representative. At the ward level, we have the MCAs. We must look at their welfare and ensure that we address some of those things. We have raised issues with regard to the Chair of that Commission. To be very fair, we need to look at the institution as a whole. As a matter of fact, I do not think we need to focus on the Chair. Of course, the Chair has to carry the political wrath of this House because she appears on television to give controversial statements. It is important to look at it from the sense that the Senate has a role to play. We need to get directions. We should send one person to look at the interest of county governments and county assemblies in the SRC. If we have not done that, then we have failed as a Senate. So, it is important that we revisit that issue. We have a representative who is a commissioner with SRC. So, we need to summon him and ask him what he is doing in that Commission to ensure that he advances the interest of the constituency that he is representing there. So, I think it is important that we are able to look at it from a wider perspective and ensure that we find a solution to this problem. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to state here that if we do not address the issues of county assemblies in the next one or so years, we will be dealing with massive corruption at the county governments, courtesy of the period or the lacuna that was created when the MCAs were out on recess. We must look at it from a greater perspective so that we can create working systems of checks and balances at the county level and be human enough to consider the challenges that MCAs go through. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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