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    "content": "multi-ethnic communities, those who did not support you will never support you, because the considerations were not even your performance but ethnic. That is why the best performer came from a county which had the same homogeneous community and that is why the ranking was high. There are some things which we need to understand. When somebody does that kind of a survey independently in each county, then he brings it together assuming that all of us were subjected to the same audience, it is not fair. I am not complaining, I know my performance in the county, the number of supporters I have and the set up of my county but it is not fair when you are lumped together like this. This is not representative; it is actually misleading the Kenyan public. If somebody was trying to achieve anything out of this, then he or she has not achieved anything because you cannot have 47 persons subjected to different exams, then you rank them together and say this is how they performed when the exams were not the same. If our names were submitted to the 2,800 respondents in the country, then each of them rated, then we can say that this is how we are being rated. But if it was done independently in each county, then it all depends on how that county set up is in terms of the voting pattern, ethnic representation and all that. That shows that this research is not objective in any way but my take is; next time this kind of research is done, it should be against the performance. We came here to perform a particular task; the public should understand the work of a Senator. Whoever is putting that question, as it was said before, it should be the starting point. You do not ask me a question when I do not know what you are asking me about; then you take my answer and judge somebody with it. The question should be related to our functions as indicated in Article 96 of the Constitution, where we should be talking about of how well we are representing, oversighting and protecting our counties. When it comes to that situation because some of us have gone through those kinds of situations where the county ---"
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