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    "content": "As we head to recess, I call upon the Senators most of whom are blessed with enormous resources not to stand aside and watch as things go down the drain. This is the most critical time. I am convinced that now more than ever - when some people are fronting their manifestos and declaring their candidature for governorship - the people of Kericho need their Senator to rise to the moment. Before someone speaks about the things they intend to do for the county, it is incumbent upon the Senator to tell them the amount of funds that we have sent to the county and what we have been able to achieve and not achieved. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I believe that leaders are suppose to lead and not to be led. I strongly feel that we should execute our mandate properly within the two months that we will be on recess to share with our citizenly and help them understand what devolution means. The position of a Senator is not just another political seat; it is a seat that can transform the lives of the people and ensure that all the poor children in the society get good education and study in decent classrooms. This is because Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) is a devolved function. People should also be able to get piped water. Governors should stop spending hundreds of millions on the Council of Governors (CoGs) and instead focus on improving rural infrastructure and providing basic needs and medication in the hospitals. If that happens, we will appreciate the gains that we have worked tirelessly for. As leaders, we should never forget how much it took us to get the new Constitution. It should not escape our minds that there are people who lost their lives trying to produce this document. We now have 47 county governments that depend on the national Government to transform the lives of wananchi. The residents of the communities that we come from yearned for an opportunity to have services closer to them. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have achieved some of these things, but we still have challenges in the devolved health care system. We even have quacks carrying out operations. It is an indictment on us, as leaders, to have someone walking into a hospital, putting on a white coat and carrying out procedures on innocent wananchi. I do not believe we are as innocent as we may pretend to be. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, despite being denied the chance to sit on the table where some of these key decisions are made in the counties, I still believe that we have the capacity to rise up to the challenge and show leadership. Sometimes, it takes someone to rise up and do something for things to change. This afternoon, we have spoken well about the good job that has been done by Cabinet Secretary for Education, Dr. Matiang’i. If there is anything that we can take out of his success, it is that if anybody is determined and sets it in their mind that there is something they want to achieve, for sure, they will achieve it. We are breaking for a long recess. However, I am happy for the time we have been here together. I wish my colleagues who are here and those who left early a nice break; a time to reflect. Let us come back re-energinsed so that we can conclude the remaining months of this term and move this country forward."
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