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    "content": "You find yourself in a situation like Sen. Linturi; you are elected by 700,000 people and then you arrive here and there is another person who was elected by 4,000 people and has resources to serve them, and you go to the county and the people are wondering what was the point of electing such a person who cannot reach a ward and does not even have an officer in the ward whom people can take their concerns to. Sen. Sakaja was elected by almost a million people; representing 17 constituencies. How will he reach that person in Kayole or Dandora? How will that person in Kangemi present his or her issue? Although the President did not discuss this issue, this matter will come from this House. As the Majority Leader of this House, I will not sleep or tire until the Senate becomes the Senate we always dream of. We will tell our children and the children of our children that when we served in the Senate, we played a role in ensuring that the Senate is an admirable institution that can deliver on its mandate. You can give us vehicles and beautiful offices in Nairobi but how will that be useful if we cannot reach that common mwananchi; that person who speaks the Marakwet language; that Keiyo somewhere in Kocholwa is waiting for his representation on fluorspar mining to reach his Senator. How will it reach him if he does not have an officer working in the office of the Senator who can be reached by the people? Mr. Speaker, Sir, when we shall send the next batch of Senators to serve in the Parliamentary Service Commission, I will sit with the Executive on behalf of the Majority side and I hope when the Minority side would have elected their leaders, we will have a meeting and intercourse of minds to ensure that this House becomes the House that when you say you are the Speaker of the Senate, the nation knows that it is that Senate that has Senators who can reach the people and undertake oversight. There are six passionate Senators who left this House; Sen. Stephen Sang, Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo, Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’- Nyong’o, Sen. Kiraitu Murungi, Sen. (Dr.) Mohamed Kuti and Sen. Mike Sonko of Nairobi. They fought for the strength of the Senate to carry out oversight. Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo was the Vice Chairperson of the County Public Accounts and Investment Committee (CPAIC). I want to give a message from the Floor of the House to all former Senators who are now governors; that we are coming for you. You better do the job you are doing with the dedication and commitment you expected the governors that you replaced to do. I believe they will also be trailblazers in county governments to ensure that the work they will do in the county will respect what the President said; the sovereign power of the people. We will not laze around here and say that because they are our friends, we will not carry out our oversight responsibility. We will do it with passion and commitment, so that the people of this country can remember the Second Senate of Kenya under the new Constitution as a serious Senate. Mr. Speaker, Sir, with those many remarks, I beg to move and ask the Senate Deputy Majority Leader, Sen. Fatuma Dullo, to second this Motion."
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