I thank God for the privilege to serve our President, Goodluck Jonathan as well as distinguished Senators and honourable members who showed me great solidarity every step of the way.

I would say that in terms of the work that I've been doing, I'm very thankful to President William Ruto for returning me by way of this nomination, back to the ministry that I have been for the last 10 months.

All I know is that I serve at the pleasure of the president. If tomorrow he doesn’t want me, I will go.

For myself and for our Nation, I want to thank my predecessor for all he has done to heal our land.

This election as Senate president honors me.

And so we are organizing a meeting so they can meet the president. I thank God because the president we have has a soft heart; I know he will accept to meet them for the people of Uganda.

My inability to attend Sunday’s meeting with the wife of the president, Dame Patience Jonathan, over the abduction of schoolgirls in Chibok, was not to disrespect her office.

I have great respect for the President and his family and I was not prepared to be left out of the progress the government was making to change the lives of Kenyans.

Mr. President, can I be blunt?” she says. “You haven’t been so far?” She puts her hands out in front of her, as if trying to frame the issue for me, or maybe she’s pleading with me. “You’re going to be impeached,” she says. “And if you don’t do something to turn things around, something dramatic, the senators in your own party will jump ship. And I know you won’t resign. It isn’t in your DNA. Which means President Jonathan Lincoln Duncan will be remembered in history for one thing and one thing only. You’ll be the first president forcibly removed from office.

Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance.

If I were to meet those men who abducted me, or even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their hands, for it that hadn’t happened, I would not be a Christian and a religious today.

I am thankful that the President of the United States has given me permission to tell my story. I hope that he and those in authority under him will read my story and judge whether my people have been rightly treated.

I have decided to step down and show a sign of political responsibility

I think it would be much better for the country and for (Clinton) personally (to resign). I come from the business side. If you had a chairman or president in the business world facing these allegations, he'd be gone.