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    "content": "doing well as a County Government, we need to send two or three Members to visit Siaya to find out what the problem is. We should not just sit here and expect a Senator to come and tell us the problem. We are politicians and we know that we are fighting at home. Some Senators do not see eye to eye with their governors and some Members of Parliament (MPs) do not see eye to eye with their governors. We can be driven by propaganda. Therefore, time has come when we need to go to Machakos or Laikipia, for example; Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, Sen. Orengo and I should go and talk to the county assembly. Let them tell the Senate what they feel about their Government. We are acting from outside when we are supposed to be acting from inside. It is a pity, for example, that we do not know how Kakamega County Government is being run. We just wait to hear a voice from the “bullfighter” or from me in the case of Laikipia County. It is not enough. It will be enough when we visit Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo’s place to understand the kind of statement which he made a few minutes ago. We should run the county governments the way the Constitution says. Let us not hide behind the political parties or the view: “I come from such and such a place and therefore nobody knows more than I do.” Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other issue is about the debate in this House. We spend a lot of time on the issue of statements. I do not want to challenge anybody but when Statement time takes up to three hours - I have never seen this kind of situation in the time that I have been in Parliament. There must be a certain period of time that the Statement time must end. We perpetuate talking and create more problems yet we do not want to bring back our people to the point - we just depart from what we are supposed to do and we accept what is going on. Finally, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, is the debate that we are being rushed into, especially voting. Voting in this House has been a crash program. That needs to stop. We have been here all the time, why should we be rushed through debates, that, we have to vote today, tomorrow or the day after, we have no time---"
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