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    "id": 905025,
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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": "that, indeed, these people were pursuing a higher road of leadership and were intended in leaving a legacy. Talking about legacy, I have made up my mind as the Senate Majority Leader. I will not comprise for political expediency, anything that touches on the Senate and deals with the jurisdiction of the Senate and the mandate of the Senate to protect devolution, which includes counties and county governments. This is because history is a very dangerous judge. I have read and seen the things that people of the yesteryears have done and some of them have lived to regret in their memoirs. It is important to read the history of other people. It is unnecessary for us in this House to opt for shortcuts because we want to please the most immediate political interest. I will lead this House from the Majority Side. I am very glad that I have 100 per cent support of my colleagues; that when we are dealing with issues related to the mandate of the Senate and devolution, there is no Jubilee or National Super Alliance (NASA) . There is only one guiding principle that the Constitution requires us to abide by that law. Madam Temporary Speaker, when we go to mediation Committees and do not agree with our colleagues from the National Assembly, we do not just do so, because of political interest. We disagree because we want to leave a legacy. Legacy is not a cloth that is hanging in a house which you pick and wear. It is a piecemeal and step by step thing that you have done. Sen. Orengo has, probably, already done 80 per cent of what will be remembered of him. You cannot just wait for later years of your life to start building your legacy. It must start from when you are young. You cannot just wake up and say: “Now, I want to pursue legacy at the end of my political career. I want to get a cloth of legacy and cloth myself.” People will see through it. That is why some Presidential candidates are struggling. They want to look democrats, but in the whole history of their life, they have survived being dictators. Let me tell my colleagues and Kenyans who are listening, that they must allow some of us to do what we must do. This is because in some years to come when we write our memoirs, we have something to say. We will say that we stood for devolution and the Senate. It was painful at that time and may have gone against the wishes of a few, but it was important for leaving legacy. That is why I have no regrets on what decision we will make about the Roads Bill, land laws, nullification of health and other laws that will not have followed the Constitution. Madam Temporary Speaker, when I looked at the health laws that were passed the other day, I was flabbergasted to see that graduation of hospitals is in that law. That you can graduate a health facility from a county government to the national Government without resorting to anybody at the county level. That you can create a body which can transfer staff of counties and approve transfers from one county to another. What constitutional principle is that law operating? We know that the Constitution recognises every person who works for every county to be under the County Public Service Board (CPSB) of every county. The CPSB is independent of the national public service and the CPSB of another county. There are so many glaring and constitutional issues that we must address. By the way, let me just tell this to the media. Sometimes I look at the reports and the news written in this country, and particularly when we discuss very serious issues in this House. Sometimes we are given footnote or a margin in a newspaper when we raise critical issues here. Some people think that we care, but we do not 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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