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    "content": "something that is clearly written; that should anyone have an issue within debating and understanding the Bill, the two Speakers have to sit down. It is also written here. What happens suddenly, that we want to revisit what took place in 1965/1966? Yesterday I decided to read and look for the law that dissolved the Senate of 1966. It was signed into law on 3rd July, 1967. When you read it, you wonder, because those Senators were appeased by being given a constituency which was equivalent to the now 47 counties. It is not good that we revisit those tactics by going back and killing the same Constitution we fought for. If they are forwarding Bills that are unconstitutional to the President for assent, it means they have abdicated the Constitution. In other words, the National Assembly should automatically dissolve itself now. This is because they have quickly broken the law and unless the law is amended, it means that they must throw themselves out and then other people are re-elected. When it comes to speaking and talking about what they are doing, they all speak as one; the opposition and the Government side. I visited one county with my colleague and saw the arrogance of the Members of the National Assembly. They walk with CDF cheques to embarrass all the Members of County Assemblies (MCAs) who have now been promoted by being given small time money by governors. They do not talk about CDF money having been used to build this and that, they say: “I have done it, clap for me”. I find it a bit ridiculous because you are setting the stage to say that the Senate is useless and yet it is not. We are supposed to serve and protect the interests of every county that we represent. My governor has no powers outside that county except coming through the Senate. This is written here. When we labour to say that these laws touch on counties, we are not doing it for our good. We are doing it for the good of the nation. It follows then that we should not have leaders who paralyse the law. It is high time such leaders were removed."
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