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    "content": "questions to find out. We need to know the challenges and successes that the counties have gone through in implementing devolution. It is important that this House identifies about ten counties that are doing so well in implementing the Fourth Schedule functions and how they are achieving it. We can use them as examples. We want to visit those counties and ask questions about inclusivity. We want to find out how many counties have hired people from across the board and incorporated the minority communities in their leadership. We want to ask whether the counties have helped, being a self- government of the people, in bringing new entrepreneurs and given opportunities to youth and women, including the “ mama mbogas.” Have they been converted into “ mama contractors?” So, my Committee in the next set of visits during the recess will want to come up with these critical answers. We have chosen a few counties regionally that we want to go to. We want to visit two counties in Western. We also want to visit Kisumu City and find out whether they have implemented the city and urban areas laws. Do they have that management that is provided for by the Act? Are Eldoret and Uasin Gishu implementing the same? How far is Nakuru County implementing the same? What challenges do they have in the management of these institutions? These are the critical questions that the people of Kenya are asking. We, as a Committee, have to do a good job. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have said it over and over again that when we do the things that we want to do as Senators, we do not it, so that we can seek for cheap publicity. We are doing it for posterity. A lot of work is being done by the Committees of this House for the record, posterity and action. It is not just to be heard that you were here or made the most noise here. We must do things that when my children come and study about the first Senate of Kenya under the new Constitution, they can go to the record and find that there was Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o who Kipchumba Murkomen was privileged to work with and the things that they did in their Committee were this and this. We want to utilize the brains of a professor of the level of Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o, a very brilliant man. I am surprised that I have never met another politician who has consistently remained in politics and, at the same, remained sharp academically, other than Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o. These are the things he was suggesting that, perhaps, during recess, we need about two weeks so that we can do something about value addition. For example, you can sabbatical in the university locally or abroad and download the experience you have received to a book and paper so that the world can learn from it, exchange and share experiences across the board. So, there is a lot we can do as a House, especially during the recess for the sake of our people."
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