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    "content": "ignored by some rogue public officers wearing various titles in these institutions. I do not want to re-emphasis my point, I want it to be taken the way it is. I want to commend the Senate for finally waking up and fighting for this institution because it is out of this institution that our people are going to derive the benefits of the new Constitution. I know that there are those who are calling us nyumbaya wazee, but Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. is a very clear evidence that we are even younger than them. We should handle some of the issues like what you saw in the Media today. Who were deciding the formula of allocation of resources to the counties before those formulas are brought to the Senate because they are also undermining our authority? The Chair of the Commission of Revenue Allocation (CRA), Mr. Cheserem and his team are supposed to create advisory reports which should come to the Senate. It is only after the Senate has discussed and approved them that they can be made public. This business of the Commission for Revenue Allocation sitting with governors and agreeing on how they are going to allocate resources without approval of the Senate must also be condemned in the strongest possible terms because they are also eating away our powers. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as has been said before, time has come for us; we are not bound by the opinion of former Governor Cheserem and his team, we can also, as the Senate, commission other experts to analyse those reports and tell us whether the basis they are using is correct or not. This is just one way. As they say, when thieves come to your house, you should not just say that you will fight them with fists. You use every weapon which is available at hand. You can go to the kitchen, come out with a kitchen knife to fight off the thieves. Therefore, I would like to encourage the Senate to sit down and come up with other strategies. The legal strategy is just one of them. Let us look for new weapons with which to fight these enemies. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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