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    "content": "I want to warn that the coast region has waited for 50 years to get to this point and even to be acknowledged in the sphere of this nation. Therefore, any attempt to take us 50 years back, will be severely be met politically by the Kenyan people. So, I am proud to know that we have come here to defend a course that our forefathers stood for, for years, which was abolished at its very inception, with the same kind of stereotypes and notions that we have had. I am here out of choice. I understood the broad dimensions of the Constitution, but elected to be in the Senate because if you want to defend devolution, you must be in the Senate. It has an express mandate to defend devolution. I shall defend this devolution against the National Assembly and any party. Even if my own Leader of Minority in the National Assembly goes against devolution, I will defend it against him. Therefore, let it be known that we will coexist as a country cordially. However, if you try to take this country 50 years back, we will deal with you before you do so. Mr. Speaker, Sir, many people here have demonstrated the kind of developments we have seen in their counties. What Marsabit County has done in one year of devolution, is something they could not do in 50 years. The same can be said of Wajir, Mandera, Garrisa, Isiolo and Turkana counties. Who knew about the good things or good projects being carried out in West Pokot? This could not happen before we embraced devolution? Mombasa, Tana River, Taita Taveta, Kwale and Kisii counties are all talking about mega projects. I hear Migori County sometimes rolling out plans to start a project worth Kshs900billion. Even if they might not be true, at least, devolution has allowed us to dream."
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