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    "content": "We must put a demand that before the county and national governments consider how to share road funds that are being allocated to them, we must have a national mapping of all our roads. It is not unusual to hear that a road has been tarmacked or murramed by the county government from point A to B; yet the national Government will still come to do the same road using funds under the National Government-CDF (NG- CDF). This is a continuous wastage of public resources that we must begin to question and ask what we can do as the Senate to stop it. If the same Bill is brought before us next year and we are told that fuel levy will continue to be channeled to our counties, yet we are not being told how it is being put to prudent use, then we may be forced to take extremely difficult decisions. As I draw near to the closure, I must also point out my reservations as a Member of the Committee about the thoughts behind the Kenya Devolution Support Programme (KDSP). This World Bank programme is well-intentioned but poorly thought out. You cannot capacitate the executive and ignore oversight bodies that are looking into the functions of those executive bodies. Even if you do not like the Senate, keep us out, but at least, capacitate the county assemblies. Give those Members of the County Assemblies (MCAs) the power to oversight and check on the operations of the county governments. Unfortunately, these people are in a rush and they want to execute programmes, but do not want to listen to most of our proposals despite the fact that we, as elected leaders, are the people who interact with"
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