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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is not just the question of going to the Supreme Court. This is why I also join my fellow Senators in agreeing that there must be other measures, over and above, the Supreme Court ruling. Once again, what will stop the National Assembly Speaker from ignoring the Supreme Court? I want to put that responsibility squarely on the Executive because, at the end of the day, the signature that falls on that law is that of the President of the Republic of Kenya. Therefore, it is very important that the message goes forth from this House to the President of the Republic of Kenya that the House is troubled by the fact that there are documents with his signature that did not pass through here and which were supposed to have passed through this House. It will be interesting for us to be told what the leadership of the Senate discusses with the President when they meet. If they do not discuss this kind of issues, it would be very interesting for us to be told what, if any, they then discuss. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think we should never be those people who tell the King that he has a very nice outfit when he is completely naked. We should never stoop so low and think that our President and the Deputy President are so weak that they are not prepared to face the truth or be prepared to be told the truth. It is imperative that word goes to them from this House that in fact, they are being sabotaged from within. In fact, by them ignoring the Senate at any time for any reason is ignoring the entire 2010 Constitution. This is because that is where all matters regarding devolution lie. Let those people who are against devolution know that Kenyans have made it very clear that the current position of our country is such that it is either devolution in its wholesomeness or revolution. Let it never be in anybody’s doubt that Kenyans will never accept to go back anywhere they were prior to devolution. They must also know that a devolved unit called the county government is the most important institution as far as a lot of people in this country are concerned. Only the country is above the county. Therefore, let nobody ever cheat themselves that a constituency can never be considered as important as a county. It is not right to think that you can dissolve a county and simply operate on the basis of constituencies. That was yesterday; not today and not tomorrow. Let everybody know that."
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