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    "content": "When you go to harambees, you will find that the women groups are the ones who provide a lot of money and the women are the ones who stay there the longest to contribute. These women groups which have been there for a long time do all kind of things, for example, table banking, trading and so on. This is now the opportunity for county governments to have a list of women groups that exist in the county. It would be good to have their addresses and when things like these happen, send information and alert MCAs that these are the youth or groups in their wards. They should receive this information and make the decision where they want to compete in the advertisement of tenders or not. When resources are scarce, people tend to scramble desperately for those scarce resources and usually people take advantage of lack of information. Those who have received it before, keep on receiving and becoming more and more prosperous while the new entrants find it very difficult to enter into the process. Now, this blocked competitive system must now be opened in this particular regard because this is a new thing that should take a new life that should be much fairer, more dynamic and that should reach more people. Finally, this is one of the Bills that show us that in order for the Constitution to become alive, laws must be made for the implementation of that Constitution. Even laws that were not envisaged, for example, the Sixth Schedule which stipulated the sequence and time action plan within which laws were to be implemented to implement the Constitution---. Even where there are no laws to implement those Schedules in the Constitution, I think it is important to do something like what we are doing today. I will suppose that in the retreat of the Senate on 30th July, 2014, this is one of the things that we should be discussing. Are there certain pending laws that should be passed in view of the implementation of the Constitution? Are there certain aspects of the Constitution that really contradict the spirit of the Constitution? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you look at the history of many countries when they passed constitutions, most amendments or laws are done within the first five years of that Constitution. If you do not do it when the window of opportunity is still open, then certain practices take root and human beings are generally conservative. Once something takes root, it becomes much more difficult to change it because there are tremendous established interests who will not see the alternative for what they are experiencing. Therefore, as it is said in English language, strike the iron while it is hot. It is also very important that we look at the Constitution and look at the laws that need to be passed to implement it. We should look at certain lacunas in the Constitution that make it difficult for us to really live the spirit of the Constitution. One of such lacunas is, of course, the status of the Senate. I would say that you cannot really have a Senate which is not an Upper House and which does not have a lot of say on money Bills. You cannot have a Senate which is given the power of the Constitution to look after counties and take care of their interests which then does not have power of money Bills affecting those counties or just limited powers. So, these are some of the issues that we need to look into in this particular Bill which is extremely important in dealing with the disadvantaged in society. That word is very important. It means that those of us who are not women or children are advantaged because the 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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