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    "content": "came to the Senate. It is important for us to look at what is happening. That way, we end up with the strategies that I have heard other Members talk about. What strategies do we have? We need to begin to ask ourselves that question. Where do we begin to engage? What do we do if there is dispute or disharmony? How do we come in? Which mechanisms do we use? Is it only at committee or individual level? That becomes very critical for us. In fact, we might want the Senate to think about a situation where we have a forum where we give a situation analysis of the counties, probably at a certain period of time. We can decide we could have bi-annual or three- month reports. Each of us will then be able to say what is happening within our counties. We need to engage with those counties. I know in some of the counties, even the governors have tried to keep away the Senators. Some have not had very cordial relationships. This is not about cordial relationships; the Governors and the Senators each have their role to play. Each of the representatives must play their role no matter what sort of set up there is. Therefore, the Senators need to be aggressive and remember that we are the guardian angels of the counties. We are there to represent and protect the counties. We need to come up and not make apologies for the sort of engagements that we are coming up with and what we are doing within the counties. We should step in as much as possible and as quickly as possible. If we will deal with Makueni, Isiolo and Machakos, we should have a clear process; right from the beginning to ensure that at a particular time, we have an interjection. I heard some Members saying that we need to call Members of County Assemblies (MCAs) early enough and have forums with them. These forums should target not only some form of understanding but arbitration and mediation. We should call them and ask them what is happening and even stipulate what the consequences are. It is very unfortunate that the tenets of devolution are completely being lost. The socio-economic development that was expected in the counties is being lost and people are really disappointed. This has become an issue of leaders perpetrating themselves as vehicles through devolution and not really the product of devolution that was expected to bring development. We are talking about development for ourselves. I support."
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