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    "speaker_name": "Sen. G. G. Kariuki",
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        "legal_name": "Godfrey Gitahi Kariuki",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, first, I would like to thank you for having noted that I am here and the fact that I am more senior than anybody in this House. A lot has been said. In fact, I had just given up, that I was not going to speak. But I am lucky that, finally, I did catch your eye. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to say a few things on this issue. We have been saying that the Senate is on trial. But what is on trial today is not the Senate. It is the Committee that we will appoint. They will be in a very serious trial because if the recommendations will be rejected by this House we will have no alternative, but to blame them forever. The Committee must be very serious in dealing with this matter. Let us not see as if this matter is so big that it has never happened elsewhere. It has happened elsewhere. This is just a process. We are fulfilling our mandate as Senators. There is nothing new that we are doing. It is what is entrenched in our Constitution. A time will come when the Senate will be called upon to deliberate on a situation like this one. We have had a lot of misunderstandings out there, whether the Senate has any job to do in this country. Some have been recommending that the Senate should go. I respect Kenyans because they are patient people. Finally, they have realized that it is the Senate which is going to maintain devolution the way it is supposed to be. In fact, the Senate is not for anything else other than supporting and protecting the counties. By protecting the counties, it is not that we 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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