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    "content": "who should be calling the shots? We should be the ones who should be calling the Governors and telling them what we think they should be doing in the counties. Whatever I am talking about is very clear to everybody because it is constitutional. It is contained in Article 96 and others that follow. Schedule Four of the Constitution gives the list of Ministries which should be administered in the counties. I believe we should know the Committees that we will form either later today or the next sitting day and start mandating counties to take charge. If you look at the list, you will see that there will be competition between the National Assembly and the Senate as to who calls the Ministers in charge of those Ministries to tell them what to do and to answer questions on their behalf. This is very crucial. We should take the lead in as much as there is any Ministry which is scheduled under Schedule Four. The Questions under those Ministries should not be going to the National Assembly, but coming to the Senate. Finally, I will look at the issue of the digital age. People may be viewing the digital age as the age of just computing. In my mind, the word digital does not only allude to the use of computers. The word digital refers to information technology. Information does not necessarily have to be in a computer for it to become information and technology does not have to necessarily be in a computer although computers are means by which we execute the technology. I would like us to think about being digital not just for the sake of holding a mouse, but to empower every Ministry because there is information on everything about Kenya. We should make sure that information is harnessed to a system and in a situation whereby all the information becomes part of the digital divide that is being talked about. I look forward to a day when all of us will be saying that we are digital, not necessarily because we will be carrying computers, but because we will be able to harness the information that is necessary to make Kenya great and rich. If we do so, all of us will be back here in five years. Thank you, I support."
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