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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker Sir, this calls upon all of us and Kenyans of good will, including our colleagues in the National Assembly, to see the sense in what the Senate is saying and trying to craft the further of this country. I am sure some of our colleagues in the National Assembly will want to become Senators in future. Some of our Senators here will want to be Members of the National Assembly in future. Some of our Members here have already expressed their wish to become governors. For all these interchangeable and variability of interest, we need a seamless flow of systems anchored in law, rules and proper positive public and private morality that makes people understand that public property is not private property and private property is not public property. If you want to own your property, work for it, but do not play with public property that belongs to the people of this country. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in the last two years, it has been very frustrating. You may recall that over 25 Bills passed by this House and sent to the National Assembly have been placed on the shelves to gather dust. Nobody is giving them priority or looking at them. Until and unless the National Assembly passes them in concurrence with what we have done, they will never become law. However, you have seen how we break our heels here to herd everybody into the Chamber to receive Messages from the National Assembly, debate Bills from the National Assembly and vote on them in record time. Bills from the National Assembly coming to this House never stay for more than a month or two months. My brother in front of me and I sit in the Rules and Business Committee (RBC); we always prioritise those Bills. We want a constitutional provision that obligates either House to deal with legislation from the other House expeditiously, reasonably and within a time frame that must be defined. We have had serious difficulties and arguments about the application of Article 110(3) of the Constitution. The provision that obligates the two Speakers to sit and determine any Bill; it does not say some Bills. Any Bill brought to any House must be placed before the two Speakers to determine whether such a Bill affects counties or not. I have already said that there is hardly any Bill that does not affect counties. Even the so called Money Bills affect counties, where do they get the money that are then converted into those money Bills? They tax people in Meru, Migori, Mombasa and Nairobi. So, Money Bills are even more relevant to counties than any other because the national Government collects revenue from business people and residents of counties. Everybody lives in a county. We want to see a situation where the Speaker of the National Assembly, my friend Justin Muturi and his team do not keep sneaking with Bills to the President for assent without the President being obligated by the Constitution to check and ensure Article 110(3) was complied with. This must be with an attendant certificate signed by both Speakers. It matters not, that both Speakers should be there. However, there must be a certificate placed before the President with the signatures of the Speakers of both the National Assembly and the Senate to show that they have complied with the law and the Constitution in regard to process of legislation. The President can and will assent to the Bill. Such things look irritable, like one is trying to undermine the comfort of some people. However, posterity will tell you that these things make countries build foundations that become unimpeachable in future. Foundations that make the country run in an orderly fashion in present and in future. The law says, as the distinguished Senator for Homa Bay mentioned, that just like the Inspector General of Police, the Governor of Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) shall be vetted by 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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