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    "id": 902771,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority leader",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Finally, as a House, let us always remember this fact that more than 50 per cent of Senators did not come back after last term. Do not postpone your legacy. We will not accept a process where someone will tell us that we must compromise the stature, function and purpose of this House because we want to please one or two people and then undermine our legacy as Senators. We must ensure legacy is not something sitting in a certain room where you go and pick it and say: “Now this is my legacy.” Your legacy is the things you do every day. As long as we continue doing everything we do as a House every day, for example, passing of laws, debating on behalf of this House, the Committee, legislative processes and defending devolution, that is how we build our legacy. I am telling Kenyans that no one will suspend the process of this House to wait for another person to shine so that this House can be revived many years down the line. We do our work meticulously as you did Madam Temporary Speaker, when you chaired the ad hoc Committee on Maize. Your Report will forever inform how the maize sector will be reformed in this country. It is the same way we dealt with the issue of the dams. That Report will inform on matters concerning dams across this country. It will be borrowed by people from other countries to learn what they will do if they have such dam disasters. Madam Temporary Speaker, the same way we have done what we did with this Committee, I look forward to proper negotiations in the Division of Revenue; that the counties will get their proper share of resources. The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party whose Director of Elections is Sen. Pareno and my friend Sen. Olekina belong, has always been priding itself as the party of reform. The party that fights for money to go to counties. However, look at how the National Assembly Minority Leader behaves. He has become a „ mtu wa mkono’ of somebody else. You can never recognize the party that talks about fighting for resources of counties and cannot see it in National Assembly. You see them in rallies and all other places saying that they want devolution to work better, but where is the signature of that behaviour when they are speaking at the National Assembly? Madam Temporary Speaker, I know my colleagues at the National Assembly, particularly those coming from pastoralist areas led by the National Assembly Majority Leader have always said that if there will be change of the Constitution, it must add more money to Garissa and other counties. I am happy that hon. Mbadi and hon. Duale are sitting in the Mediation Committee. I send you, Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. to go and tell them to the face: “This is The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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