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    "content": "Committee of which I am a Member and it has an important role. I hope that Sen. Mungai, even though he is not with us today, will bring in some fresh thinking and some new blood. This is the Committee that should be interrogating today whether Kenya is ready for the next elections and whether the necessary ingredients are in place for a peaceful election and transition because there could a transition. We should not all assume that it will be a continuation. The Committee should interrogate whether we are ready for a peaceful transition, whether we are ready to accept the outcome of the next Elections, whether societies have healed, whether communities are willing to work together and whether ethnicity and issues of negative ethnicity have been dealt with properly in this country. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this is the Committee that oversights the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC), a commission which receives a lot of money. Just last week, it is reported that in budgetary allocations, the commissioners of the NCIC were given a salary increment and they will be earning Kshs1.25 million per month. This Committee must demand results and outcome out of the money that goes into it. I hope that Sen. Mungai will live up to that billing and allow those of us who have been there for too long to learn from him. Maybe our ideas have been stale. I hope that he will come in and kick that place you wanted to kick earlier so that this Committee can ready this nation for the next elections because the next elections could have two outcomes. It could be continuation or a transition. In conclusion, I support the inclusion of Sen. Khaniri in the Committee on Land and Natural Resources and the Committee on Parliamentary Broadcasting and Library. Sen. Khaniri has previously been claimed by the other side of the House and more so, by Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo, that he belongs to the other side. We might need to conduct an audit one day to find out whether the Minority is now the Majority or whether the Majority is now the Minority. As it stands, I am not very sure whether the party that sponsored Sen. Cheruiyot to this House is formerly a member of the Jubilee Coalition in which case he should be sitting somewhere in the middle and the Senate Minority Leader would become the Senate Majority Leader. However, I think Sen. Khaniri’s inclusion in these committees is quite welcome and I wish them well. I thank you."
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