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"content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I feel pain when you sit down with lawyers, you agree and then they turn around and stab you in the back. We requested to be invited for that meeting by the Committee on Delegated Legislation of the National Assembly. They rushed there, they did not invite us and the same afternoon, the report was before the National Assembly. So, I feel a lot of pain about this. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there appears to be a broad conspiracy to make sure that this Senate is merely a debating club and that it does not deliver. That is why there are so many pieces of legislation passed by the Senate and still pending in the National Assembly. Next year, you will hear some people calling for the Senate to be abolished because it has not passed any laws. They themselves are the ones who have caused those laws not to be published. It gives me a lot of pain that the devolution which we fought for, the county governments for which we fought have now become a burden---"
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