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    "content": "The Wambora issue would never arise when, if you agree to this proposal that if a governor is removed, and the governor challenges the matter in court, that suit would not last for eternity like the Embu provision. An important Bill to this Senate has been proposed by Sen. Sang on The County Printer Bill to make sure that the legislative power of the county assembly is not impeded at the county level by the Government Printer. We have now included that definition in Article 260. We will most likely and without a doubt go into a referendum. The referendum is not a word synonymous with any political outfit or persuasion. It is a term that we imported and we put in our Constitution under Articles 255, 256 and 257 to protect those chapters that deal with objects of Article 174. Since we have touched extensively on matters under Article 174, a referendum is inevitable. The approach to this referendum must be non-partisan so that the proposal to strengthen our counties, county assemblies and Senate that vet judges, Chief Justice and proposal to vet all office holders including commissions can then have fruit. Madam Temporary Speaker, this is a milestone for this Senate. We have two options. One, we agree to do this non-partisan and two, is to do it non-partisan. We have no option other than to offer leadership because the first victim of not having a strong Senate, we will be blamed for eternity just like the 1966 amendments which led to all the inequalities in Kenya. All the land grabbing, corruption and everything that is synonymous with discrimination including tribalism is a product of the 1966 amendment of removing regional governments, Senators and the Senate. In order to allow other Senators to have an opportunity to debate on this, we have given you a framework of how long we think this can be done. If allowed, I think before we go into the next General Elections in August 2017, it is possible to have this in the referendum. Secondly, for all the proposals on the amendments in the Constitution including by the governors and those proposed by “ Okoa Kenya” to be part and parcel of this document, so that we can achieve the objective that the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD) is looking for in the amendments to the Constitution. The proposals that the governors are looking for in the amendments to the Constitution and the proposals that we Senators have proposed to this Senate as the way forward, the truth and the life in having a true devolution in Kenya. For those naysayers, we want to tell them that there is no reverse gear in devolution. It is one way. I support."
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