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    "content": "mechanism for baking a bigger cake so that the division of the cake - the division of revenue - becomes an easy process. Therefore, as a team, we will stand firm. We have not been established to undermine the National Assembly. It is not us versus the National Assembly, the Executive or the Judiciary; it is us versus the truth. This Committee is established to look for the truth and find mechanism of ensuring that the working relationship between this House, the Executive and the National Assembly is better. It is not for tomorrow, for the current regime or for the next ten years. It is for posterity because this House has a responsibility of doing what is right, so that those who will come after us, when they read the books of history, will be confident to say that there were men and women who sat in the first Senate of Kenya under the new Constitution and had a bigger and brighter picture. They will know that we were looking at the big star that is shining like a diamond. This House must dream big and know how Kenya will be governed in the next 30 years and how we will utilize the best leaders in this country in future. We have now created a structure in this nation under this Constitution where one can start leadership by being a Member of the County Assembly (MCA), graduate to be a Member of the National Assembly, to a Senator or Governor and finally to be the President. We do not want to say that we have a strong Member of a County Assembly and when the day comes for that person to graduate to be a Senator, he finds himself in an institution that is weaker than where they came from. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have 47 governors serving our country. They are wonderful men but some of them have misbehaved, but you cannot miss about 10, 20 or 30 who are good. Assuming that they get a second term and serve this country with distinction for ten years and they want to further their political career, will they be comfortable to come and serve at the Senate of Kenya? Will they find an institution that will make them progress their leadership and ideas that they collected from the grassroots when they were governors? Can they debate in the Senate or they will feel that this House is so small and weak and that they should run for the Presidency? What happens when this nation has 47 candidates from every tribe running for the Presidency? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this House must be what it was intended to be, which is the second tier of leadership after the presidency, where men and women of wisdom can sit, generate ideas, inform the Executive and the county governments of the day and ensure that we have a strong system of governance that respects values and other institutions. We must also disabuse the nation of any notion that we are forming this Committee for the purpose of pursuing our own welfare. That is far from the truth. This House has never put its welfare in front of the welfare of the people of Kenya. In this House, even when people were clamouring for salaries and allowances, we kept mum, became reasonable and good negotiators. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let it be known to the nation that the issue of the argument of the Kshs1 billion allocated for our oversight responsibility was not money for Senators to manage, it was meant to do the structure of the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC). Its responsibility was to create entities and structures at the county The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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