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    "content": "Last time, we had the same problem. We were rising at 3.30 p.m. for lack of business. The Rules and Business Committee should have met earlier so that when we come here we continue with the business. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, what has been said is true; we just have about three months to transact serious business. By 13th April, 2017 when most of our major parties will nominate officials in various positions, in this House there might be no one. Very few Senators will be coming here to discuss any issue. If we have 21 Bills, including mine on ECDs, which has been discussed for the last two or three years and it has not been assented to by the President, we are wasting time. Why should we be here, discuss Bills, take them to the National Assembly and they are never brought here? Does that mean all that is wasted time? That is not proper. Let there be a ruling that some time will be taken up by Bills so that they are allowed to take the maximum time that there is for them to be discussed by both Houses. Secondly, we have governors who are aware that by April or May they might not be nominated by various parties. What do you think they are doing now? They are spending all the money for development purposes such that they entrench themselves and are seen like the prime movers in the counties. In absence of anything else we have done here for us to reprimand or prosecute against the evidence given by the Auditor-General, we will be seen like we are not doing anything. We are just shadow boxing. Why can we not be seen like we have teeth to bite?"
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