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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, the Motion as tabled by my friend, Sen. (Dr.) Machage, is very important. I wish it had come earlier because we are languishing in problems which are of our own making. We are a frustrated lot and we continue talking about issues that sometimes we have no answers to. We talk of Bills which are already in the National Assembly which have not been passed. That kind of lamentation will not do us any good because at the end of it all, all the Bills will lapse. I am very sad because I was involved in one of them which I am struggling to see whether it can go to Division tomorrow. If not, then it will go down into the drain. Madam Temporary Speaker, some of the Bills have taken us a lot of time. We have been out of the country to see what happens out there. It is painful knowing that only one or two days or one week should have been reserved to make sure that at least Bills are passed, even if en masse, so that we go home in August a proud lot, having passed a number of Bills. Some of us will go home lamenting that we worked very hard here but without any one Bill having been passed although we put all our effort or three quarters of our lifetime in this Senate. Here we are but we cannot do much because our time to leave has come as per the Calendar. We have to leave and go for the General Election on 8th August this year. Those who will be lucky will come back and those who will not be lucky will stay at home. It is sad that we will have to part and disconnect with some of our very able, sound minded Senators we have ever had in this country in the 11th Parliament. Madam Temporary Speaker, I support the Motion wholeheartedly. Most of the Members who are involved are very prominent by nature, stature and skill. They are people whose sanity cannot be doubted. Therefore, we cannot doubt whatever they did to come up with this Report. We therefore congratulate them for the good well-done job and we will support them. This was supposed to be a periodic review and it is covered in our agenda and that is a normal thing. As Parliament, we have to continue reviewing our rules and orders as it has happened with the Committee that was chaired by our very able Speaker. That is in order because we are in a dynamic society but not static and we keep on bringing in fresh ideas into what otherwise would have been negated. We are happy that the Committee came up with very good proposals, some of which will go a long way to be remembered even by generations to come. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is also important to note that some of the salient features captured in the Report are things that we have always been talking about. Why should petitions take six or ten days to be completed? Some of petitions can even take a year. If we put that petitions should be concluded after 60 days and then after that they are effected after 60 days, what a wonderful Senate will we have? Some of the petitions that will lapse are those that affect the lives of Kenya residents such as the one I tabled here last time about the greater Kirinyaga-Mwea Ranch which is supposed to be between Embu and Kirinyaga. It will now take more time. We were expecting that as we go to the elections, this would be concluded. We would celebrate as Kirinyaga residents as we move towards what we think is ours historically but due to the fact that it had not been covered by the"
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