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    "id": 1625124,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mumma",
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    "content": "As I sit, I am glad that Senators have taken Mr. Omusundi’s Petition seriously and debated it at length. In my view, the country needs to redirect itself in order to get back on track from tens of years of nurturing a bad habit; a habit that may very well throw us off the cliff. I hope our students who are learning will also understand that this is important. As you grow up, you need to know that the fact an MP has given you a bursary does not mean it is their personal money. It is money that has been appropriated by Parliament for purposes of education. They need to be doing so humbly, indicating how much they received for the bursary kitty and how it is allocated. Those who have done it well have usually allowed the public to determine for themselves the most needy, and they have openly shared. Mr. Omusundi has raised, as I began by saying, a matter of accountability. We cannot account if we say public money is ours. We cannot account if we make an arbitrary decision that since a certain village largely voted against me or my opponent, they will not get particular services. We need to get to that level where the public or the villagers will just know they had been allocated millions of shillings for a road and want to know whether that road is worth the millions they were allocated. When we move to that level and start understanding the costs of projects, we will have less misappropriation of both our offices and public funds that are assigned to our offices or related to our offices. Mr. Omusundi, I do not know whether you are listening out there. Whoever else is listening, thank you so much for giving us opportunity to canvass and discuss this issue in this country. In my view, an issue which does not need any law to be passed, is one that needs to be implemented. It is an issue that is important for policy for this reason, when I become Governor and then we have Mumma Care, Sen. Thang’wa takes over and because Sen. Thang’wa hates Catherine, he decides he is moving away Mumma Care and now it is Thang’wa Care. When Asige takes over, Asige says it is now Asige Care. We do not even know what we are communicating. When Beatrice takes over, she wants it to be called Abito Care. Why are we personalising public service? If we think this programme is good for maternal health, let it just be a good programme for maternal health that must be retained by every next government. We must not play around with services to our people where we decide this is about a mix for Catherine Mumma, the next mix is for so-and-so and that is what we have done with our education system. Every President who comes wants their variation of an education system. In the meantime, their own children are not going to those education systems. They have taken them to international schools and they are experimenting with others. We must decide this program is good for our nation and we are going to continue regardless of whether the previous President was a good President or not in my view. We must learn to get to the place where we praise a good program for what it is, regardless of what we think of whoever is doing it. The best way to do it is to stop naming programs after ourselves and stop calling ourselves the patrons and the matrons of all these public programs. We have a programme in Nyakach which was built by one Member of Parliament (MP) and 10 years later has never been used because another MP has never seen the need 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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