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    "content": "That is why this House is very sober. It is a House that must look at things for posterity and from the perspective that tomorrow so-and-so will not be president and so- and-so will be the president or maybe tomorrow the person who is actually fighting the Senate--- I saw a Member of Parliament from Nairobi who is so critical about allocating money to the counties; and on one side of the mouth, he is saying that more money should not be given to Nairobi City County while on the other side of the mouth, he is saying that he wants to be the Governor of Nairobi. What a contradiction! Tomorrow those who are denying the Senate money will come to this Senate; those who are denying counties money, will want to be governors. By the time they are there, they will be saying that these counties have not received certain resources. Madam Temporary Speaker, I am very proud of this House and I want to advise the Members of the National Assembly and to our reverend, that Jesus said it would be easy for a camel to go through an eye of a needle than a rich man to go to Heaven. Those people can focus on the riches of this world but they must ensure these riches are distributed to the people of Kenya through devolution so that when they reach Heaven, as the book of Matthew says, welcome because I was poor but you gave me money; I was sick and you gave me resources to be treated at the hospital; I was going for maternity and you did the road to ensure that my child is born in a good place. That is the kind of system we want and the kind of nation we want to build. I want to request our colleagues that those who will be nominated or elected to this Select Committee that we have proposed, they must go back to the HANSARD, and it must be transcribed, printed and given to the Committee because wonderful provisions have been expounded here, which must be reduced to propositions from Members to policy positions, to legal positions, to constitutional amendments for posterity and for the good interest of this nation. Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to move."
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