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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, one problem that I would like to ventilate, before I sit down, is the problem of manpower or human resources particularly in the Auditor- General’s Office. One of the things that we should do as the Senate before our five years are over is leave this Chamber when we have established that the Auditor-General’s Office is properly human-resourced and that the Government gives that office and the Auditor-General sufficient latitude to hire professionals for working with him. We shall have handed over to future generations a very good heritage of and an institution central to the governance and financial health of this nation that works properly. When, therefore, some of us are declaring that we want to be governors, we are not going there because of money. I mean, at this time in my life, the last thing I am looking for is money. In any case, if I wanted to make money, I would never have been in politics because I was doing work that was paying much more than this in all kinds of places; that was much more senior than just being a politician. However, we came into politics to save this country from bad governance and ensure that we have development and national development plans that can save this country from poverty and degradation. When we, Senators, have seen that we are taking resources to the counties which are being misused, we owe it to this nation to take the responsibility in our hands and go back to these counties and put them right. This is our mission. If there was anything that some of us, Senators, want to do as our last lap in political life, it is to make sure that counties work and we have no apologies to make. Anybody that goes out there or writes in the papers that Senators want to go to counties because there is a lot of money there, such people do not know our history nor do they appreciate some of the debates that have gone on in this House. Some of them do not know how our committees work and the kind of information that we receive in a Committee like the Committee on County Public Accounts and Investments and the mess that we are seeing going on; that we, as Senators, must now take responsibility and go there and put it right. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I believe that when some of us become governors, there will be a better relationship between county governments and this House. Therefore, it is a mission that some of us are committed to, a mission we shall fulfill, a mission we shall go through and whose destiny we know and we know that in our hands, counties will do better than they are doing now. We are not afraid or shy to say so, we say so with clean conscience and commitment with the sense that we shall build for the future; profuturo edificanos."
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