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"content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this very important Bill. I do not think there is any county in the Republic of Kenya, the 47 of them, that is not grappling with this problem of pending bills."
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"content": "When you look at the figures, they run into hundreds of millions of shillings. They are not pending bills of Kshs5 million; they run into hundreds of millions. The problem is - and here is where the Senators need to be very candid - we know the root cause of why we have the pending bills."
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"content": "The first major problem is if a governor leaves office and a new governor takes over, they want to abandon all the projects that were done by the previous governor; and initiate new ones, ostensibly to solicit for bribes for the new projects. I am sorry to say this, but that is what is out there."
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"content": "In the process, you will go to counties and find very important projects that are supposed to provide services to the people of that particular county, stalling for a long period of time. I can give you an example from my County of Nyamira."
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"content": "Our first Governor, the late Nyagarama, had a fantastic idea. He put in place a project to put an 80-bed extension to the Amenity Ward in our County Referral Hospital in Nyamira. Unfortunately, he passed on in 2020 during the COVID-19 period. That project has remained incomplete up to-date."
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"content": "Our county headquarters remain incomplete to-date. I have been in sessions where we have summoned the governor to Nairobi. I have sat with the Committee that is chaired by Sen. M. Kajwang,’ and he can bear me witness. That governor has given an undertaking. I know that maybe he does not go to church or believe what he says. He gave an undertaking that those projects will be completed. However, up to-date, they remain incomplete."
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"content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, the Auditor General’s report says that the people of Nyamira do not get value for money. I was in the Committee of Sen. M. Kajwang’ when the governor promised that in six months, Manga Stadium would be ready and that Olympic trials could take place there. He was on oath. He is my senior and an elder in our community. He was born in 1960. I am much younger."
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"content": "He says something before a Committee of the Senate on oath and nothing happens. If I take Sen. M. Kajwang’ to Manga, the people of Kitutu Constituency are still crying. This is because they look at the millions of shillings that have been pumped into that project - he saw the Auditor General’s report - and there is nothing. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, in the process, you find that you have sent money to counties. We fight here when we are sharing revenue, but the moment that money reaches our counties, it is never used for its intended purposes."
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"content": "The other day, we were talking about Kshs110 million that was given by the national Government during the COVID-19 period. Again, we started a project. If you read through the file, you will find correspondence from our county government informing us that they had started a project where they were going to build a 300-bed capacity as an emergency response to COVID-19 pandemic."
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