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    "content": "institution will stay. However, while we are here, we must build this institution so that those who come after us find a much more capable and stronger institution. At the moment, the strength of this Senate is undermined by positive laws. We do not have enough laws to implement the principles and values of this Constitution. A law like the one coming in today paves the way for more laws to come. Sen. Sang was the first to come up with a law and this one has followed. Many more laws should come to make sure that the idea of protecting the interests of counties and promoting those interests is done in an institutional way and that there are capacities of doing so. Madam Temporary Speaker, we have another issue in our Standing Orders which says that we should be addressive. We can address because we have the responsibility to do so to our county assemblies from time to time. That one should also be backed by much more capacity to tell people that they can address. Addressing does not just mean talking. It means having a way of sitting down with people and discussing. If you are the person initiating the agenda, you should have the means to implement that agenda. You cannot go to a county assembly and create the agenda but you do not have the instruments of implementing it. These are some of the things that this House should look into. We cannot put things in our Standing Orders and fail to develop the institutional capacity of realising them. One of the biggest problems we have in this Senate is having the responsibilities without the institutional capacity for exercising those responsibilities. We have accepted the responsibilities honourably. All the time that we have been here, we have been very civil and noble and saying that we shall try our best and implement the responsibilities that we have been given. However, quite honestly, you need a capacity to do so."
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