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    "id": 584296,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. G.G Kariuki",
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        "legal_name": "Godfrey Gitahi Kariuki",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I know there is the county government, the county Assembly and the county executive. In total, they form county governments. Following what the Mover said, there is a lot of merit in political science that the public is given an opportunity to say something, protest or to petition their county government and the county assembly for that matter. That is the message that the public is receiving. My question here is; after we got all those messages, we have tried as a Senate even to demand the appearance to our Committee of some Members of the County government but we have found it very difficult. There is something that we have not understood in the total set up or management of the county government or county assembly and so forth. I think it is important for Members of the Senate to start looking beyond what we see because there is a problem that we have not been able to discover. I hope it will be discovered very soon. The day that the Senate will decide now that they are here to represent the county government, they will want to understand how we want to represent them. Are we really representing them in the manner that you would comfortably think that I am really representing the county government? Are we in good harmony with the county government? Are we really working together? Unless Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. captures the reason why we are completely not in one team, between the counties and the Senate, we shall continue talking and thinking that we have done a very good thing to bring a Motion like this one. Even without this one, nobody had stopped members of the public to petition the county government. I do not think there is anybody who had said no. It is only the legal mechanism which was not there. Now with the legal mechanism, how is it going to improve the situation? We have been receiving petitions in this House. It is now going to two-and-a-half or three years, what remedy have we given every group of people that have petitioned this House? What answer have we ever given? I think it is high time we thought beyond our politics and saw the solution; and see why we were elected to this House. In fact, with your permission, we have gone too low as if we are Members of the National Assembly where they are free to ask all the questions they want to. But in this House, I think we cannot be so reckless as to just do things because they are there. We have to create a situation where we will be seen by the public as the House of mature people; people who really think, people who think of tomorrow. We are here to use their brains to make sure that we change this country. Even if we do not change this country, we should be very strong mediators between the county government, the national Government and the National Assembly. We can create that bridge and be seen to be there. For the Senator to come here and say my road has not been tarmacked, what does he expect the Member of the National Assembly to say? Someone was sacked, and he is now being promoted. These are politics of the National Assembly and we have to shift from this kind of politics and become responsible. 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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