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    "content": "First of all, I want to thank the lord God almighty for giving us this opportunity to be in this House. It is the doing of God that we are here today. Secondly, I would like to thank the people of Kisumu County. In the last Parliament, I had an opportunity to serve as a Women Rep for Kisumu County but this time I am a nominated Senator. I want to thank the people of Kisumu and the ODM party. Thirdly, I would like to congratulate our Speaker. He has been given a very good and heavy responsibility to be the Speaker of this House. It is my prayer that the Speaker knows and will make sure all of us belong to him. We are his and he is going to be non- partisan in carrying out the responsibility in this House. It is good that in this House we are not very many like the National Assembly and so it gives us opportunity to deliberate and to debate on different issues that are affecting Kenya. It is very important that we note that we are here to protect devolution. For a long time, many parts of the country have been left out in terms of development. All of us know that, previously, if you were not politically correct, you would not get any development coming to your area. Since most people from NASA or ODM we have been the watch dogs of Kenyans to make sure that things are done well, we did not have a lot of opportunity to have our areas developed but with devolution, the sky is the limit. It is important to know how we carry out our responsibility as Members of the Senate. Senate is not a House of “Wazees ” as simply put. It is a place where we should make sure that the country is run in a proper way and proper manner. We should make sure that devolution works. Devolution is one of the products of the new Constitution and I want to thank all the people who took part in making sure that we have a new Constitution because without the new Constitution, we would not be here today and we would not be representing our county governments. Our Speaker happens to be a former Governor, he knows the challenges at the county levels and he knows many things that should be corrected so that the county governments can run well. In the first Senate - I am sorry to say - most Senators were very sorry that they were Senators. Most of them wished that they were Governors and that made the work difficult for Governors because a lot of times, they were just witch hunting. Now that we are here, I believe all of us came here wanting to be Senators and not Governors so that we have the opportunity to help the Governors for devolution to be realized. If devolution works the way it should, I do not think we will care who the President of Kenya is because we would have devolved a lot of resources for people at the county level and made sure that all the citizens are taken care of. People should get water, good health and proper infrastructure that is needed at the county levels. Therefore, it will not matter who the President is. It is unfortunate that two things have not been fought in this nation. First of all, the issue of corruption. If we take corruption from the national government and take it to the counties, I am telling you, my brothers and sisters, we will not achieve anything. Sitting here, our priority is to make sure that we kill tribalism and corruption. Those two; we must kill them and I wish I could be the President of this country. I do not think it would take me much time to kill tribalism and corruption."
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