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"content": "We thank God that the rains have continued for long. Our people across the country have food and the rains are also continuing. We continue to tell them to plough and grow plants, so that at least the basic needs such as food, are put on the table. I believe this is one of the key reasons the inflation rate has dropped from 9.6 to 2.7. They said this is the highest drop in 17 years. It is good news. I believe by next year, we are going to feel the effects of this drop in inflation rate. There are many other issues that we were said during that State of the Nation Address, which are also related to this particular mediated version of the Bill. There is a lot of wastage and corruption, both at the national and county level. We want to warn the governors, and especially the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC). We expect the ‘big fish’ to be arrested. We want investigations to be done. Why are there files lying at EACC for the last five or 10 years or the last six months? As the President said, our Petitions at the Judiciary take only six months. Why are we not able to prosecute corruption cases at the same time? Why is EACC not able to investigate within a short time? Take the file to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), take people to court and let them set an example. As my colleagues have said, in China, if you are found to be corrupt, you are executed. Perhaps we need to review our Constitution and see if this can be brought back. If the resources that we are sending to the counties and what remains at the national Government are used prudently, then we should not be borrowing. We should be using our Pension Funds to do private-public projects. Why are we going to India or China? We should use our Pension Funds, National Social Security Fund (NSSF), National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) and Local Authorities Provident Fund (LAPFUND), to do all these things. If you go outside here, you will see the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) Pension has put up a building and Teleposta was put up by a Postal Pension Scheme. Let us use these Pension Funds to fund projects within the country. The moment we use the Kenyan Shilling, we will not have that problem of foreign exchange issues. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I read the Report in the course of the week that the reason our loans are not coming down, and are rather growing day by day, is because of the exchange rate. Luckily, now the exchange rate to the Dollar is Kshs129. It came down from Kshs162, a drop of 20 per cent. We thank God and the policy because, the Shilling has strengthened and stabilized due to the policy changes that they have put in place. When the Shilling is stable, at least it is predictable. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there are some organizations, especially the national Government, that are digitized. When the Kenya Kwanzaa Government came into power, they said that they had only digitized about 5,000 services. Now, there are 20,000, which is 6,000 per cent. There is growth of revenue. Why are our governors not digitizing their services, to seal leakages of revenue? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Information and Technology, and we have done an inquiry. We are going to travel to about four counties this weekend, to see the systems that they are using. When you 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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