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    "content": "how many times the word “National Assembly” and “Parliament” appear in the Constitution. I am sorry to put it within this context, we took a Bill concerning potatoes to the National Assembly to look at it. I remember the Majority Leader and the Speaker of the National Assembly did not realise that potatoes are grown in 34 counties. It is a staple food for many Kenyans. Its cultivation is guided by a Sessional Paper. That is why today, chips are cut in finger-like shapes. I could not even believe that when they looked at that Bill they could not remember the 9 counties that rely on potatoes for economic empowerment. This is the same thing. They have looked at the Procurement Disposal Act and they do not imagine that it is the same Act that will work in the counties. Here they are; after finishing with it, they wanted the days to lapse so that they can say “after all the Constitution says that when the days lapse, the Bill goes through.” It is time the National Assembly and the Senate worked together for the benefit of our people. We need to be serious. I plead with the Senators that since the National Assembly has time to embrace a lot of verbal violence that we cannot understand, it is time we employed a different strategy and embrace the Senate as an “Upper House.” When we deal with issues concerning the country, let us manage them in a manner that when the society looks at us when we are debating, they will always separate us from the National Assembly and we shall remain relevant as an “Upper House.” That is how we will deal with this. We will look at what the President has said, advise accordingly as a Senate. If we feel this is not right, we will do it the same way we have always done. We will pass it and make sure that it goes back to the President for assent. We will continue telling the National Assembly to kindly stop making Parliament look as if we are people who did not go to school. Many of us have degrees. We talk about them in this country."
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