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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, it is important to recognise that the report which was tabled here today by Sen. (Dr.) Machage is welcome. It has come at the right time. We should support it so that we get a lot of good things as it states therein. As I conclude, it is sad that I am leaving without even having passed a Bill. I have struggled for four years to pass a Bill on early childhood. Going by what I can see here and what we know, that tomorrow being the last day, this will lapse yet there was a lot of hope. This Bill is coming amidst a lot of developments in the education sector. We will have many reforms in the country regarding education but we cannot do that without the County Early Childhood Education Bill (Senate Bill No.32 of 2014). Madam Temporary Speaker, to reform education we need to start from early childhood. Without that key Bill which has only one hour maybe to be passed – and it cannot pass because there is no quorum to pass it - We need to find out why we cannot pass Bills. Why should you go home without passing the Bill that you were supposed to pass? Why should the National Assembly keep more than 15 Bills from the Senate? Why should that happen? The moment we unravel that mystery, we will realise that the Senate is working. We should be seen like we can work. There is also a Bill concerning the pension’s scheme of the county governments which we are supposed to have passed. As we go to campaign, I do not know what people will say about us. We should have passed this Bill so that those workers in the counties will be given pension as they retire. Now, nothing will happen. We have not had time to work on it. So, we can only say pole because we have worked very hard but we have not succeeded in this calling. As much as we have football matches where you say that you are winning and you have not scored, that is not a win. A win is when we have had so many Bills passed and assented to by the President. So, I wish you all the best of luck as you leave our august House. I hope that one day we will meet either in the same House or in a different House or position out there. Please remember those people who are in this House. Madam Temporary Speaker, with those remarks, I beg to support."
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