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"content": "May 21, 2025 SENATE DEBATES 49"
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"content": "our counties, we must hold the national Government to account for the 85 per cent that is left at the national level. Our counties have functions like agriculture. We must boost food production. How do we do that if we do not support our counties with enough resources to realize their full potential in agriculture, livestock services such as vaccination of our animals, extension services and crop farming? The issue of roads is another big challenge at the counties. With a classification of roads that is not very clear, we still have KeRRA handling resources that are meant to go to our counties for the smaller subsidiary roads, which help those going to the markets to have access from their homes and shambas . Water is a devolved service which counties are supposed to be providing. When we go for county visits we find a big challenge. Many of our counties are still unable to provide safe water to their people."
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"content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, let me speak of the sewerage facilities in Kajiado County because it is the place I know best. Kitengela, a very big and growing town, does not have a proper sewer system. It is the same case for Rongai and Kiserian. If we do not address the issue of sewer systems, then we are waiting for disaster in our heavily populated towns."
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"content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the biggest challenge in a county such as Kajiado is that the population living there is not necessarily the locals. All Kenyans including you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir and many others have their homes in Rongai, Kiserian, Ngong and Kitengela. Kajiado has become the bedroom of Nairobi. For that reason, our urban centres need proper planning, sewer systems and proper garbage management if we must live dignified lives. We also need proper link roads to Nairobi, so that even if one stays in Ngong, they can make to their workplace in good time and go have time with their children in the evening. As it is now, majority of Kenyans who live in those areas spend so much time on the roads; from Bomas, Galleria going towards Maasai Lodge and Rongai is a gridlock. Towards Kitengela and Ngong is also a gridlock. We are asking that these resources be accounted for. Our counties should get enough allocated to them, so that we ease the living standards of Kenyans. This is so that we can live in a country that we know has made leaps in terms of development."
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"content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, one would not want to get to our market facilities, but when it rains the situation is not hygienic. One would not want to buy tomatoes and potatoes there, yet we should be living in a clean environment. We should be providing enough resources for our counties."
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"content": "Let me mention this early enough that even as we support our counties to get these resources, the governors must account not only for the equitable share, but also for the own-source revenue that they are collecting every day from our markets and businesses. They must be able to streamline on licenses, so that they are not killing the local economies and the small mama mbogas and boda boda riders who are operating from hand to mouth. I call upon the committees of this House particularly the County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC) and County Public Investments and Special Funds Committee"
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"content": "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": "May 21, 2025 SENATE DEBATES 50"
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"content": "(CPIC) and those oversight committees, that we must rein in on the counties. Each governor must be able to account for what goes in his county, so that Kenyans realize the benefits of devolution. It is important for devolution to work. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I have been seeing UHC workers, daily demonstrating outside this House. You wonder where they belong. The counties are not owning them and the national Government is not owning them as well. This House should rise to the occasion and address that issue because health is under our docket, in terms of oversight and we must come out to help those Kenyans. I support this Bill and urge that we fast-track with the last audited accounts, so that we are depending on the Financial Year 2023/2024 accounts instead of the Financial Year 2020/2021. I thank you."
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"speaker_name": "Sen. Wakili Sigei",
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"content": " Thank you, Sen. Peris. Sen. Maanzo, you can address the House from the Dispatch."
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