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    "content": "have absolute power. We have relative power that we must agree on with the county governments when we are doing anything. We have gone beyond expectations in terms of the way we have been talking about county governments. First of all, we never ask ourselves how long they have been there as institutions. How long have we been here as the Senate? We have to analyze what we do not know so that we can know and understand. The moment we understand, we shall be on the right path. Some of us remember when there was a problem of interpretation of the Constitution although there was unity among the different political parties. Sometimes those who do not know just jump on the band wagon without their knowledge. You are with people whose ideas are completely different from yours. You are on their wagon and when you are taken a few miles then you start saying: “I did not want to go this direction”. As Senators, we have never thought of bringing a Bill to amend the Constitution. In fact, we know what we are doing at that particular time. That is why I am saying that we have to be given an allowance of being new and appreciating that we are all learning. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the other important thing is that, if you call a witness to appear before the Senate committee and he or she is a Member of the county government, whether he is a Governor or a Member, he or she must present himself or herself if we respect what we know and what we understand in the Constitution of this country. Constituonalism will never be achieved when people defy the Constitution openly and without shame. Sometimes I wonder when it comes to Members of the county governments and especially the Governors; that none of them was given a ticket to contest a seat unless he or she was a graduate. You wonder what schools they attended after they became MCAs or Governors. Power really corrupts and makes people so drunk to the point that even when somebody enters his house, his children and their mother have to stand up because the boss has come home. This is a terrible attitude. He behaves as if he is living among chimpanzees in the Congo Forest. That is the only place you can expect all the gorillas to stand up when you come in; as you join another group of gorillas. Today, you will find a Governor telling someone else; “if you cannot ask President Uhuru Kenyatta to attend to your committee, then I will not come.” Are we being driven by sanity or what is happening?"
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