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    "content": "I fail to understand when elderly statesmen are disregarded. If you can disregard elderly statesmen like Sen. G.G. Kariuki, I do not know who can be regarded. Many things have been done to this House and as I speak, our live broadcast should have lapsed at 4.30 p.m., but at 4.00 p.m., the channel was changed in order to focus on the business in the National Assembly. A law was illegally passed to remove the Clerk of the Senate as the Chief Accounting Officer and nobody has ever spoken to it anywhere. You can see how far we have been taken to be busybodies. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, because the Members of the National Assembly fear our oversight role, they misappropriate CDF and when we ask them to account to the people of Kenya, they also start the same problems like the governors. That is why they are going around in constituencies flashing cheques as if they are their own. They should know that Kenyans are watching and however much they try to put this House down, they do not have the capacity. The issue of the advisory opinion, for me, is quite interesting because one was flouted and we are again going for another one. If the earlier advisory opinion were to be converted to orders that have been flouted, then we would be making some headway. If one advisory opinion has not been heeded to, why are we going for another one? I do not know how far we will go. Since we are law abiding citizens, we will knock the doors of those courts and the judiciary must remember that history will be on or against their side with regard to the ruling they are going to make. It is often said that; in all difficulties, there are opportunities. Maybe this is the right opportunity we have as the Senate to rise up to the occasion to be seen as the “Upper House”. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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