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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I hope they were not legislating with the whistle blowing Senator in mind. I hope this was driven by a genuine concern to ensure the Address of the President remains a dignified State affair. However, we must still make an argument on the rights of citizens, including Senators, to picket and to demonstrate and to protest legitimately when there are issues burning in the nation. That is a constitutional argument that has been used in the past; that is to picket, demonstrate and carry posters, not just today, but even in the days of the great Sen. James Orengo. Some of the changes and reforms that this country has enjoyed were as a result of the demonstrations and even the protests that we saw in Parliament. Therefore, we will need to look at these sections on definition of gross misconducts and disorder and make sure we are not attempting to clump down on legitimate protest or to narrow the space that parliamentarians have in this House. I know Parliament is a House where there should be good manners, but good manners are reciprocal. You can only have good manners if people in power and the public also demonstrate good manners. Let us not define gross disorder and gross misconduct in a way that limits the space that Senators enjoy in this House. With those many remarks, I wish to support. Madam Temporary Speaker, I also wish well those Senators who have chosen a different path in public or private service. This Senate could not have achieved what it has achieved so far, without the contributions of all these Members, including those who have opted not to come back to this Senate. We do hope that for those who will be running county governments, they will remember this Senate because it was established to protect those counties. For those who will be going to the National Assembly, I hope they will inject some sense of good manners and judgment. This is because the situation we find ourselves in of constantly fighting every year when it comes to the Division of Revenue Bill does not augur well for this county. I wish well those who will be going to the counties. I also wish well those who will be enjoying private life and those who will be appointed as Cabinet Secretaries. One of us here will be a Cabinet Secretary in charge of the Economic Sector. This is a very broad mandate. That is Sen. Moses Masika Wetangula. I wish him well. I do hope that he will remember this Senate and look at it favourably. I hope he will advise the incoming President that it is the Senate that is a reasonable House that he should work with."
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