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    "content": "This House can be busy from January to December dealing with only inter- governmental relations between counties, dealing with matters of ensuring that boundaries are okay or with matters of accountability in the counties. Even as we fight here to ensure that the boundaries are correct for proper collection of resources, on the other side, we are hearing stories of individuals wiring county money to their accounts, enriching themselves and so on. What happened to the servant spirit where we thought that persons who are going to run our counties are servants? We are now dealing with situations where, because time is running out, county assemblies have decided that we are going to compromise with our governor to share this thing instead of a lose, lose situation. They think they should eat together because they do not know who might be elected back. This House has an immense responsibility and particularly towards the end of the term. Greater sins are committed towards transition because somebody who realizes that he has lost hope, he might decide to pocket everything and go home. I was speaking with another Senator here - I do not want to mention a name so that I do not jeopardize county relations - who told us that sometimes you find that the resources that have been devolved by this House are being used every day to move people from one corner to another using lorries and buses. When they reach the meeting and you are sitting there as a Senator, everybody who speaks in the meeting says: “We will re-elect the governor” as if there was an election tomorrow. This misuse of public resources for purposes of running campaigns instead of using it to serve the people is not useful. It is actually counter-productive to the initial objective of ensuring that devolution works. Madam Temporary Speaker, I have more energy this year as the Chair of the Committee on Devolution and as a Member of this House, and I think we must do more. This is a House of record and posterity. We must do things for the future. As I said here, there is no need for any one of us to feel like you need anybody to praise you so that you can feel like you are a Senator. You can be praised 100 years down the line. They will read and say there lived a Senator who spoke in the Senate about this, who passed a certain Motion like Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. or who wrote a particular law. That posterity is what should drive all of us as we serve in this House. We should not necessarily be looking for the momentary praises that sometimes cannot come because some of the people we are dealing with do not have a long-term view on these matters of devolution. Madam Temporary Speaker, I support strongly and as a Member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, we will not let you down, but ensure that the Bill and the process is provided for in good time."
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