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    "content": "“Upper House” than the person who won votes of the electorate from over six constituencies. I think that this analogy is what I call weak and feeble wisdom. Therefore, the Senate by implication, political fact and tradition is the “Upper House”. I have heard some Members of the National Assembly tell me that I am misplaced in the Senate. However, I think that this is where I was destined to be. If given an opportunity to run for election again, I will run for the Senate again. This is because if for nothing else, I have interacted with some of the greatest minds that this country has ever known and some of the greatest people that I read about in history and civic books. I have learnt from their experiences. If I was probably in the other House, I would have degenerated and been lumped in some kind of framework where my intellect and capacity would have been questioned. I have no issues being in this House. In fact, to repeat myself, even without these amendments, I would still be in this House because I think that our destiny is such that we must be the people who lay the foundation. The Senate is simply looking for that space for devolution. Some of these names I have come across were people who I was reading and just marveling about. Today I have had the opportunity to interact with them. I had not read many of the names that are in our sister House. In fact, if I was in that House, I would probably have been one of the biggest names. Truth be told and it is for nothing else. The Senate, even in its debates, is a House of knowledge. Do not think that sometimes I just sit here fidgeting with technology. Every time every speaker stands in this House, be it the youngest Senators to the oldest ones, there is wisdom that you get. I have heard experiences that people share when they were in the Cabinet. People will give you their experiences of the first regime; that is the first Independence Government, the second one of Moi and the third of Kibaki. This is a reservoir of knowledge. The Senate, undeniably, put together is the biggest law firm in this country with some of the most expensive consultants in the field of law. In this Senate, there are some of the best doctors, professors of leading industries and people of human rights like myself, probably, one of the greater names in the human rights domain. There are people of all calibre. Every greatness is found in the Senate. Some of the women leaders who are here are the biggest names in the women movement."
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