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    "content": "Committee, Sen. Kagwe. He very ably led the Committee and we were able to learn a lot on the operations of committees. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I was also fortunate that I was a Member of the Committee on Education and also the Committee on Health. I come from the medical profession and this is the Committee that I felt comfortable in when serving this House. I was very happy and feel honoured to have been given an opportunity in this Committee. Indeed, this afternoon, one of the amendments that were passed in this House is one of the Bills that I moved as a Member; The Medical Practitioners and Dentist Board (Amendment) Bill. I was also fortunate to work with very able Members in the Committee on Devolved Government where I was given the opportunity to become the Chair. Despite the many challenges we encountered in this Committee, we did a commendable job under difficult circumstances. There are some experiences that we have all learned as Senators in this House. I do not want to repeat the many experiences with my colleagues because they are more or less similar. There are things that worry me which I have learnt in the last four years I have been here or perhaps even before I came here. It is very unfortunate in this country if leadership is going to be on sale. This is a situation where this country is going to lose useful and able leaders who are unable, or who for some reason do not believe in this kind of leadership. I am one of those. I do not believe in buying leadership. I would rather present myself the way I am so as to be given an opportunity to serve. My understanding and feelings about this was strengthened when I was fortunate to visit the United Kingdom last week when an election was going on. I did not see a single poster anywhere; on the roads, posts, or on the walls. I saw aspirants directly asking for votes. They would actually write a letter and put it into a pigeon hole or put it on the floor or door houses and explain themselves. They would knock at the door and look at you on the face and tell you what they are going to do. It is more convincing than using the system that we are using which is wasteful. In fact, it has made some of these leadership positions seem like they are on sale. You have to spend so much to tell the people who you are and why you want to serve them. I do hope that somewhere along the way, maybe the coming generations of this country will probably realize that leaders are God-chosen through people. Right leaders will come into place and will do justice to the people, without necessarily having to use monetary resources. We have also witnessed several things that need to be rectified, both in the National Assembly and also in this House. Some of the things are fairly obvious. The two examples that made me to understand that things are not very correct here is that it is during this Parliament that the court nullified the laws that had been assented to by the President. This tells us we need to be able to look at the way we make laws in this country, so that there is complete and comprehensive consultation with all interested arms of citizenry of this country before a law is passed and assented to by the President. The other one, of course, is The Division of Revenue Bill. We know that we have had to struggle so much with this Bill, starting with the very first one where we ended up in the Supreme Court, and even the last one here over which we have had a prolonged"
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