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"content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I will rally colleague Senators that as much as we support the Government in ensuring that the industrial parks are done, the people working in our counties should be given these opportunities. In Bungoma, the money for fertilizer is about Kshs242,962,800. These are monies that we must be able to follow to every farmer, the way the Government gives people registered this fertilizer. We must know how many bags are being procured by the county government, how many farmers have gotten this fertilizer, where they are and what amount of produce these people are getting. Let us not find ourselves trying to pump money into a bottomless pit and yet, we cannot account for that money we are pumping to the grassroots. That means that the executive members in every country through the advice of the governor must always give back to the county assemblies on the outcome of the monies that we give, whether there is improvement, where the shortfall is and ensure that this works. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am seeing in Bungoma Kshs335,809,000 for livestock chain supply. This is a drop in the ocean, but we appreciate. Monies that have been broken to various sectors in this Bill must be accountable and they should be ready to see us in every ministry and department. The Controller of Budget (CoB) as well as the Office of the Auditor-General (OAG) must supply this honourable House with every detail of the monies that are being consumed. Let us not be a House of post-mortem, but let us be a House that does budget tracking by the use of Government institutions that have been mandated to execute this work. Let us not wait for Sen. Osotsi and Sen. M. Kajwang’ to be giving us reports and yet we are the sole oversighters of our counties. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I have seen monies for leasing of medical facilities. I come from Bungoma, Sen. Okiya Omtatah from Busia and my great miracle Senator is here. We are paying large amounts of money for this leased equipment in our counties. Time is up and we have to call a spade a spade. Are we sure whether these facilities or equipment we are paying money for are on the ground, are being used by our people and there is return for money? If not, I then request this House to instruct and advise Sen. Mandago that we revisit this wardrobe of skeletons. You can imagine this amount and yet the facilities are not on the ground. These monies can equip our facilities with CT Scans and other medical equipment that our people travel for from Bungoma to Eldoret, Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), and Kisumu and yet we are not seeing these facilities being used. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am going to consult my people on the ground. If these monies are being paid for things that are not there, I will come back to this Floor of the House and initiate a process that we must recover the monies that are being galloped by projects that cannot be accounted for. We are seeing monies from the national Government as grants but I say here that we are opening a new chapter; and our people must be ready to see their Senators follow every coin, at every corner it shall be, in order to ensure that at the end of our five-years’ work, we can stand and gallantly say that we worked for the people, and that we gave to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God. I thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. 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 Services,Senate."
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