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Ignore the naysayers, Senate is here to stay

Senators sat in Eldoret from yesterday for the first outside Nairobi. The inaugural week-long plenary and committee sessions at the Uasin Gishu County Assembly, is a pointer that the Senate takes  its role of providing an enabling environment for effective and efficient operations of the counties seriously.

And as a testament that the House is rising and growing stronger, one does not have to look further than the vain calls by some individuals to have the Senate scrapped in the name of it an ‘unnecessary burden to the taxpayers”.

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