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"content": "is not about funding; it is the issue of officers. So, if programmes can be put in place, whereby the Government can monitor how the money is being spent, that would be good. Take, for example, the roads in the rural areas--- We said that when we are talking about devolution and taking money close to the people, it is the Governmentâs intention that money goes to these places. This money is for use by the local people. However, if you take money, for example, to Kakamega and you employ a contractor from another place that money is not utilized for the purpose it was intended. The annual prequalification of contractors is an area where there is a lot of risk. The Government officials are the ones who pick these contractors. You will find that at times, even the contractors who carry out these projects are Government officers who form companies and cartels. A person who is a District Roads Engineer in a place like Kisii may be having a construction company which operates in western Kenya, Kakamega or Kisumu. These are the issues which the Government needs to check, so that Government officers do not award themselves contracts because it leads to corruption. Recently, I raised an issue in this House regarding the recruitment of teachers. The Minister for Education, whom I respect very much, you heard the kind of answers he gave in respect to that issue. I ended up discovering that in my constituency, where he said that I had been given a large number of 12 teachers, six out of those who had been employed were from outside my constituency. It is this kind of misallocation of resources that causes people not to get services that they deserve. So, the integrity of Ministers and Government officials is something that must be high on priority. There was also a Question that was raised in this House today, which has been recurring, the issue of power shortages and outages. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, despite this power shortage and power outages, if you look at the bills, the Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) collects adequate money from the people. In fact, they tax everything, but when they collect this money sometimes you wonder why then you end up having all these problems of power. I think the surveillance unit in the power sector must liaise with the security organs, so that there is some kind of surveillance to curb the issue of transformers being stolen and fuel being stolen from the transformers, and then they blow up. I think our systems are not well co-ordinated. I think as we take down the resources, the money the Minister is talking about, he must also ensure the money is properly utilized. There is no point of coming here and talking about huge figures but when it goes down; you do not know how and where it is utilized. Mr. Deputy Speaker, sir, the other area that has also been of concern is health. Hospitals do not have drugs. I had a case where some patients were asked to pay Kshs8, 000 each for some doctorsâ equipment called âT9â. The hospital could not give treatment. I had to negotiate. The drugs go to the hospitals and then they are diverted into private pharmacies. I was negotiating with a pharmacist to give the drugs for the people to be treated so that later on when the Government gives drugs to the hospital, it could give them back. This is supposed to be the responsibility of the Government. There have been innovations in the reforms that the Government has put in place, which I think are working well but I think the structures are not in place. On the issue of Women Enterprises Development Fund and Youth Enterprise Development Fund, we have been saying that when this money goes through intermediaries, some areas of the country do not not have the culture of borrowing; so, people end up not taking the money. This is because they feel that"
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