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    "content": "when I go to the counties. I know my contribution. It is, therefore, needless for me to be ranked because that will not change my pattern of doing things. I appeal to Members to ignore this since they know what they do for their people, this country and the committees because we do a lot of work. We should ask the people who came up with such kind of reports to come to the Senate one day and see the kind of work we do here. We do a lot of work. If they did not know, they need to come and attend one of our Kamukunjis and hear for themselves. They should not write things to belittle the effort put forth by Senators here. It is time that we asked them what else they expect us to do. Do they expect us to jump and if that is so, how high? Do they expect us to bend and if we have to bend, how low? These are some of the questions that we ask as educators. The moment you do research anywhere, you must have an objective for conducting the research. What kind of research was conducted by the Infotrak and what were they trying to project? Were they trying to suggest that number one is the best in everything while number 47 is useless? If that is the case, then, so what? These are the kind of questions that we need to ask ourselves. Let them know that we are elected leaders. I was elected by over 250,000 voters. They should realise that voters are not crazy; they knew who they were looking for and they have a lot of faith in us. They have a lot of trust in what we are doing. That is why we keep on coming here to table Motions and contribute a lot in the House. Somebody cannot just assume that by calling one, two or ten people, the results should be universal. That is not the case. Interviewing 2,800 people on telephone out of 250,000 people is not okay. Those are peanuts; a drop in the ocean. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we should not even be discussing that report because to me, it is not substantial. As far as I am concerned as a teacher, to get a sample, you must have a representative figure. You have to come up with something called “representative sample.” What they used is not representative. It could have been one area, location, village or tribe which we do not know."
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