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    "content": "these amendments. We have to do that for prosperity so that Kenyans understand that it is not just supremacy battles and that we do not want powers for the sake of it, but to strengthen the Senate. Madam Temporary Speaker, I would also like to call upon Kenyans to support us now that this document is public. We had to work quietly to ensure that the issues do not even get out to the media until we brought the amendments and laid the document on the Table of this House. I know and also hope that Kenyans and my former colleagues in the media will look at these amendments in totality because I know what might happen. We might pick one or two amendments which we feel should not be part of this Constitutional (Amendment) Bill and tear it up even before we start having reservations about it. Madam Temporary Speaker, I support the recommendations of the Committee. I hope that Kenyans will agree that we need to have a strong Senate –when we go for a referendum – so that their expectations of this institution are met. When Kenyans see distinguished Sen. Obure, Sen. Boy Juma Boy and others, they have a lot of expectations from us. That is why they, in their own wisdom, elected people with a lot of experience to sit in this House. However, looking at the current state of how the Senate operates, it has become almost impossible for Senators to go about their business in the best manner that they should or would have. I hope Kenyans will see the need and relevance of ensuring that we have a strong Senate."
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