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"content": "are some counties which are prepared while others are lagging behind. So, it is important that each and every Member of this House supports this noble Motion, so that every county can be enhanced in terms of the fiber optic connectivity. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, our county assembly members should not be called “honourable” members whereas they live in a very dishonorable state. For instance, in Nyamira it is very difficult to know where these honourable members stay. This is because they do not have offices and some are operating from ramshackle sort of offices. So, it is very important that the county governments, now that they are going to get budget allocations, give priority to enhancing the state of capacity to our Members of the County Assemblies (MCAs) in terms of providing them with computers and offices. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as has been clearly put by Sen. Kagwe, even the media centres are very important. Today we have witnessed a number of MCAs visiting the Senate. If we had the capacity, which we hope to have in future, we could have just canvassed with them from their county assemblies via video conference. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this is a very important Motion and I ask every Member to support it. We are talking about e-governance under the Vision 2030. We hear about files getting lost from one place to another, but if an MCA needs to communicate to the Speaker, for instance, he can just do it by sending a message via computer. This will reduce corruption at the county level. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, on the issue of marketing of our products in those regions which have potential in tourism, if the county governments and MCAs are equipped, they can have the capacity to communicate not only to the fellow members of the county assemblies in Kenya but even to the donors. Therefore, I also request that our county governments approach donors in this respect, since the monies which will be sent to the county governments will be minimal. There are donors who are interested to uplift the standards of our capacities. These donors include the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Ford Foundation. So, it is very important that our governors also and those in charge in those areas approach these institutions, including even the World Bank and Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA), so that we can improve the state of technology in our assemblies. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as we moved around, as the Chairman has clearly put, we realized that the County of Laikipia, for instance, has very elaborate plans on connectivity. Kirinyaga County was lagging behind while Nyeri was fairly doing well. As move around, we also want to advocate that our counties must be enhanced and the MCAs given due support to operate. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to support."
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