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    "id": 1445814,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Tobiko",
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    "content": "have not been completed because they have audit queries or the EACC is handling the matter. The EACC cannot operate in perpetuity. It is there to investigate, get reports and court cases going on, but they do not. The EACC has also turned out as another monster in the country. It is not possible that we have problems in every institution. This institution creates problems in other institutions and we get into a vicious cycle of non-compliance and non-completion. Consequently, public resources continue to be wasted. I would, therefore, urge this House that we take stock of the many projects that are pending in our counties because the EACC has stalled the projects because of open-ended queries. The Senate Majority Leader has spoken, and it is true about the waste of public resources in this country. This is one of the issues that the young demonstrators have mentioned over and over. However, I will tell you something else that is annoying Kenyans. I hope this will go to the ears of all the decision-makers in this country including this House, the National Assembly and the Presidency. We must all listen because it is one thing that is becoming a time-bomb in this country. I know I have said it on the Floor of this House on several occasions. I will continue saying it because even if it will not help in anything, at least, I will have satisfied myself that I said it. The inequalities in this country are a time bomb. It makes me sad every day to imagine that a Kenyan can have qualifications, but may never get to see into a certain office just because of the ethnic tag. I remember one time we left the National Assembly as a caucus of those of us from Maa counties. We went to lobby and make a case for a person who was the then Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK). We believed he had all the qualifications and the international markets were rating him well. There was no reason he would not have risen to be the Governor of the CBK. He could not be allowed because he comes from a minority community. So, minorities will continue to be marginalized. It is annoying. No wonder, the young generation that is calling itself tribeless will send all of us packing Whenever I use the roads going to our home, it saddens me. I can see my neighbour, the good Senator for Machakos, Sen. Agnes, smiling. She knows this is a story I say every day. It is annoying that we have no roads, but we are the closest to Nairobi. From my home, I take like three hours to reach Nairobi, yet it is a place that will be 20 or 30 minutes’ drive if our roads were good. The other day we had a Cabinet Secretary in the Senate to answer questions. Unfortunately, he did not get a chance to respond to my questions before the dissolution of the Cabinet. I went to beg him, and I told him, right now, we are even begging just for murram. If you cannot do murram, we are even begging for just grading because we do not have roads. This is happening across the county. It is not confined to Kajiado County. I know those counties in the north that have problems of insecurity. One of the major contributors to insecurity is the lack of necessary infrastructure, yet in some other counties, there are tarmac roads. Everybody will leave Nairobi in the evening, go home and come back tomorrow morning. They will have taken care of their cows, chicken and seen their old parents. They then come back to Nairobi, do their job and go back home in the luxury and comfort of their vehicles and good roads. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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