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    "content": "They ask us about our roads and yet they know who is responsible for roads. They are dishonest people who are saying that Mombasa County Government cannot repair its roads. It is not true that there are Mombasa County roads. We should tell these people that the county government will not repair the roads and when it gets money, it will look at other infrastructural developments. This Bill, therefore, is ill advised. It is a compromise that has come far too late. You should not tell us that you sat with so and so and yet you do not even know whether in the sittings there were initial consultations. In all fairness to the people we represent, let us do justice. Do justice to the people that we represent. They have been in their desperate situations for such a long time and this Senate should not relegate them to the same. Let this Senate get the audacity to face up situations. One time we wanted to go into a referendum to shift power and I think we were the first group, known politically, that ever said that it did not want to move power. I do not know whether we are humble or stupid. The Council of Governors wanted to amend the Constitution to make you the Upper House and some friends of ours came out and said that they did not need it. Right now, they are politicking and dancing to the wolves but getting nothing done. They only come to tell us that this is what we negotiated. If they had that power, they would have negotiated with no one but by themselves. The way we have taken of as a Senate has put us in a perpetual position of weakness. I have not accepted to be in a weak situation. Muslims are not weak. When you are weak, you are vulnerable. When you are weak, you are oppressed. You are not supposed to be oppressed. Our Muslim culture does not allow you two things, either to oppress or be oppressed. Those two have an equal measure of sin. So, if you sit down while being oppressed, do not think that God is sympathizing with you because you are also sinning. Those are some of the things that we need to take with gravity. We should not allow this Senate to perpetually be positioned in a corner. Let us take this issue to the people. Let us fight this battle. Let us either win or lose because that is what we are expected to do. I beg to oppose."
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