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    "content": "Investments Committee is very important to our counties. We have noticed more often than not Governors traversing the world seeking investors. This Committee now will be responsible to countercheck what expenses they have incurred and which investors they have flown into the country and from where. As Senators from various counties, we can also understand that, for example, Investor A who is coming to Nyamira is from a particularly country and is going to invest this much. Mr. Speaker, Sir, rules, laws and procedures are made for easier work and governance. We cannot say that this is the last time that we are amending these Standing Orders. If need arises in the future and there is reason to go further and examine what to do, we can do that. Mr. Speaker, Sir, thirdly, the splitting of Committees is a welcome move, but with a rider from me. My observation is that we must interrogate ourselves; whether we are going to work for this country or ourselves. I am very reluctant that the Committee that I sit in – the Committee on Education, Information and Technology – should be split. This is because we have undertaken a lot of good work. But since many believe that splitting of these committees can easily work, so be it. But the most important thing that I have to put to the Senators is that we must interrogate ourselves. If we sit in these committees, are we going to discharge our work effectively? Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also concur with my Whip who has just said that we have to look at the committees that we are going to sit in and the amount of work that we are going to put in. We should do this for the sake of the nation and not being a Chair or making trips to China, Canada and elsewhere. The essence is: What will these bring to our relevant counties? Mr. Speaker, Sir, last but not least, we have witnessed that now that the relevant Chairs of Committees report on behalf of the Government, sometimes it becomes very difficult to summon the Cabinet Secretaries and departmental heads to bring answers to the Committees. With this new awakening and order and assertion of the powers of the Senate, which emanates from the Constitution, I urge all those Members of various Committees, to tighten their belts and engage the relevant Committees, so that when questions are asked by Members, we expect to have answers in the shortest time possible. Mr. Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I support the Motion as amended."
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