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    "content": "level by the County Commissioners. We need to work on mechanisms to resolve those conflicts. Power is not easily given; power is taken. That power needs to devolve and trickle down to the Kenyan people at the county level. If we decentralize power to the people called County Commissioners and we create monsters called governors, our people will forever be observers in a development process that they should be part of. Hon. Speaker, Sir, having said that, I think a lot of effort is being made to bring semblance of participation in budget-making at the local level. I had a misfortune of participating in one last week and all that my people got after travelling for very many miles was a list of things that the governor wanted to do. He said: “This is what we are going to do.” We need to make people participate with figures. Having a wish list of the things that should be done including tourism, which is not applicable to my constituency, is not useful. I also want to commend the Jubilee Government for coming up with a bright idea which, I am sure, is going to be funded through the same Budget Estimates. That is the issue of computers. One of the reasons why I am for the Equalization Fund is because I have not less than 15 primary schools which do not boast of any permanent structure. Giving those schools computers will mean that they will be rained on the first day when it rains. We need to first of all equalize all primary schools and bring them to the same standards in this country. So, I would urge that before we go to the issue of computers, we think in terms of making uniform structures for our primary and secondary schools. There are schools - and I can name many - that do not boast of even grass- thatched structures. Children study under trees and when it rains, they go home. So, we need to make investments. I know there has not been much emphasis in construction of physical structures for primary and secondary schools. However, if you want that facility to benefit all uniformly in this Republic, we need to make the facilities in those places uniform. Otherwise, we will be denying some the rights and opportunity of going to “Canaan” simply because they do not have the shoes and the feet to walk there. Thank you and I wish to support the Bill."
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