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"content": "it. Every time we have harambees to offset medical expenses of our people. Our people are suffering in the villages. We are paying more, but we continue to suffer more. What has become of this country? Why is President William Ruto running down this country? We do not have any other country. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to quickly run to one person who gave his memoranda to this particular committee. He said that we should try and reduce Government wastage or improve on the prudence in the way we use our national resources. When President William Ruto came, he said that we are cutting on all wastage in Government. We were told that austerity measures are setting in. In Parliament here, we were told that we have to reduce our foreign and domestic travel. This is happening in Parliament. The way we travel now is not the same way we used to travel when we came in here. However, this does not happen with the Executive. Why is it that the State House budget keeps growing every financial year? It is not that he has new members of staff. It is not that he has new services or he is getting more guests so that his hospitality budget is increased. What was it in the State House that warranted repair? Was the roof leaking in State House that he had to spend billions of monies in a country where people are suffering on very basic issues like health? He had the money to ensure that he could repair almost all state lodges around the Republic. How many days can he sleep in even within one financial year? Why can he not do them progressively? Why would he then not do the State House in Nairobi and leave the rest and do them progressively? He is renovating the State lodges in in Nyeri, Bungoma, Nakuru and Mombasa. I do not understand the urgency of renovating all these State lodges. Why does he want to live like a king when the rest of Kenyans are suffering? They are sleeping hungry. What joy does he gain in having the best palatial State House in the Africa? He says that he wants the State House of Kenya to be at the level of the White House of the United States. Is he leading people who have as much quality of life as the people of the United States? Why run down the health system in Kenya and then live like a king? Madam Temporary Speaker, as we work on reducing Government wastage, I would like my colleagues to tell me why it is important that for every one project that has been commissioned, the President has to commission it five times. A lot of money was spent when the President was in Nairobi. You saw the kind of entourage when he was commissioning projects in Nairobi. Why was it extremely important for him to move in entourages of 50 Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs), and mobilize people to come and clap for him?"
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"content": " Hon. Sen. Methu, I know you have hearty contributions towards this Motion, but I would like to remind you of the provisions of the Standing Order No.101 on the content of speech because you are contributing to a report on debt management. However, the way your contributions are going, you are debating around the person and the conduct of the President for which you need to move a specific Motion. So, you should confine yourself to the relevance of the report that you are contributing to. If the report in any manner points to the fact that it is the President that is doing the budgets and not the National Treasury, then you would move towards the line 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": "of argument you have taken. Under Standing Order No.101, you need to be cautious of how you contribute towards this, so that it is not about the debate on the person or the President."
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"content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I know you have the responsibility of protecting the President because he is your party leader and my party leader, for that matter. However, I am picking things straight from the report. I have actually gone to page---"
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"content": " Are you picking something on that report? Let me have the report. Clerk, let me just have the report, so that we are on the same page."
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"content": "(The Clerk-at-the-Table handed the Report to the Temporary Speaker (Sen. Veronica Maina)"
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"content": "What page did you indicate?"
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"content": "I am on page 30. It was the submission that was made by Mr. Aronyo Kevin. It is just a broad term. One of the things that he proposed is reduction of Government wastage. In my argument, I am trying to express my disappointment in terms of public wastage. I am not discussing the conduct of the President. President William Ruto is not State House. In fact, he is not the Accounting Officer of State House. The Accounting Officer of State House is the Controller---"
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"content": " Sen. Methu, yes, that is why I have guided you understanding Order No.101. On page 30 of the report, I have not seen the mention of the President in any of those paragraphs."
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"content": "I have not mentioned him in any of my arguments."
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