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    "content": "become mature now; we are of age. The mistake which was made, in my submission, needs to be corrected. It is easier to correct the mistakes we made during our time. We selected Chairpersons in a hurry due to political manipulations, and we did all these things. Therefore, I think time has come for the gentlemen and women that I have just mentioned to sit down and do an evaluation of whether we are doing what we are supposed to do in our deliberations and whether reports are available. Mr. Speaker, Sir, those reports that always appear on the Table here, sometimes I wonder like a scholar whether we are going to just keep papers in an archive. There are so many papers in our archives. If you want to read anything about Kenya, Kenyans are very good and they have written extensively. Unfortunately, the way I look at it, because I am a Member of a number of Committees, I find that we are all going to be the same people and there will be no change. The Committee will just sit down, ask somebody to come for an interview and they can come or refuse to come. And when they come, they decide what to say and what not to say. I think we must be given some teeth by the Standing Orders. Actually, we should get more teeth and sharpen them so that they can bite. When a person is invited by a Committee, either by summons or by request, he needs to know that he is appearing more or less in a court of law where he has to explain whatever is required. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was very concerned with the philosophy of the Committee where it says that the committee is the best way of doing things. I am very sure in my mind that if committees do their work properly, they are the institutions which are supposed to make or carry the name of the Senate forward - Through committees with the kind of friendship we expressed ourselves towards our friends that we do not want to disappoint them, I think that is where we will start failing. Regarding the prayers, I think it is okay, you can make it as short as possible because God knows what you are trying to say even before you have opened your mouth. You can just say “Please God help me” and that would be enough or “Let me do whatever you direct me to do” and that is more than enough other than tiring Him by giving a lot of rhythm ores, words with no meaning which do not add anything. So, I agree with whatever was done, we go by it and maybe in the next few months, we shall come back and say these prayers are too long and we need to reduce them. God waits for you to reduce or to make it big. It is up to you, it is your own problem. He does not have any problem to share with you but you have the problem that you are asking him to solve for you. Mr. Speaker, Sir, another point I want to comment on is, when you delete the word 9.00 a.m. on Wednesday, it has been a tradition and Kenyans are very difficult to change what they found. They are too conservative. It just got into our mind and into our system that the sitting for Wednesday morning at 9.00 a.m. must remain so. I am happy that this has been changed that we should be meeting in the afternoon and the morning session can be used to do other things which are equally of more value than sometimes when we just sit here. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the word one hour on the Motion of national importance, it is also important because we do not have very much to say on such a Motion except that hon. Members or Senators like to talk too much and sometimes they get out of the real discussion. I have experienced this. I plead and I pray that as we are maturing as 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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