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    "content": "Therefore, I would like to propose the following. As we pass the County Allocation of Revenue Bill and the Division of Revenue Bill, 2016, and after we have passed the coming Budget, this House should hold a three-day conference or retreat to take stock of devolution, get a balance sheet of devolution and assess its future. As one of the ways of taking stock of devolution and having a balance sheet, this House should commission a study of the effect and impact of continuing with the Provincial Administration as received before the Constitution was passed and as it is, affecting devolution today. This is because this particular provision was not put in the Constitution for amusement. It was put to ensure that now that we have two systems of Government, those structures of Government that existed before should not continue ad infinitum but should be terminated at a specific time in history which was defined as five years after the effective date of this Constitution coming into being. We as a Senate responsible for devolution, we are letting down this nation by not compelling the Government to implement this provision in the transitional and consequential provisions. Therefore, in the retreat or conference that we are going to have after the budget is passed, this is one of the things that must be discussed. I propose that in line with the Motion that we just passed, one of the things that that Motion should consider is a provision to hold that conference, first, to discuss the proposals that will come out of the Select Committee that we have just established headed by Sen. Murkomen. I think that this provision has to do with the terms of reference of that Motion. I hope that we shall take this very seriously. As I said in one of the debates on television, we, as Senators, should not continue dancing like angels on the top of a pin and thinking that by doing so, we shall have an impact on the history of this nation. That is very important. I am sure Sen. Wamatangi agrees with me on that."
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