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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, the PSC went to an immediate slumber instead of realizing that the status of Parliament is no longer the same. I do not know whether it required that we were supposed to have a complete overhaul of the staff and have new people coming to serve the PSC. It seems that most of them came from the original National Assembly. You can see even the way they have branded the cups, plates and cutlery. They are still reading “National Assembly”. Even vouchers are still reading “National Assembly”. Some of these things needed to be realigned. I do not know what we were waiting for. We chose Senators to represent the Senate in the PSC and waited for them to point out these anomalies because it was supposed to be their first job but they did not do it. Madam Temporary Speaker, even for the staff of the Senate, some of them were sent here on disciplinary grounds. I do not think this is Siberia, where you send people who are unable to be “repaired”. Even the perceived struggle between the Senate and the National Assembly, the PSC is the root cause of that. The Act that was supposed to make the Senate functional and have teeth was not amended. It went further to give power to the Speaker of the National Assembly as the Chairman of the PSC. Naturally, you cannot want to see power moving away from you. We also have support commissions that were introduced for devolution to take shape, like the Commission on Implementation of the Constitution (CIC), which should have looked into this. Most of the commissions that we have like that one for the coordination of the Governments should have addressed this so that when the Budget cycle comes, it becomes automatic that the issue of representation of counties is assigned resources. Madam Temporary Speaker, yesterday there was a massacre in Baringo and Turkana counties. The Senators for Turkana and Baringo counties are supposed to go there. The Senator should have gone by now but how do you go? I have to use my private car which is supposed to take me home. Even the mileage we are given is up to the house and the question is; how do you go round the county? I have a county that is above 9000 square kilometres. This is a very unique and peculiar county because it has many hills. I make fun of the people from Mt. Kenya that they have only one mountain which is 17,000 feet above sea level and the second tallest one in Kenya is found in my county, that is, Mt. Mutelo which is 14,000 feet above sea level and there are other small ones. If you go round, you cannot even manage. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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