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"content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you know that these names are also very long and are like a sentence Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we need to be serious in the Senate. When we discuss a Motion or a Bill here, this is the House that will see to it that it is implemented. If such a Motion was implemented during the time my friend, Sen. Obure, was a Minister – and Prof. Lonyangapuo also stated here earlier – we would not be having this problem of discussing every other time about offices. We would be talking about connectivity. How connected are we now to those counties? We are supposed to relate and communicate with them, yet we are very poorly connected. So, this Motion is coming at the right time and I hope that it will be implemented. If it is implemented, we will be a step further from where we are. Recently, I was able to sit in a board of directors meeting somewhere. We had posted some invitation in the newspaper that we wanted a managing director of this and that quality. These people were supposed to submit their application by a certain given time or day. But we were surprised that when the time was over, there were still people submitting applications. We agreed to invite one person even if the application was late, to ask him what really had happened. This man was from Turkana. Since we are supposed to advertise in three newspapers which include The Daily Nation, The Standard and any other newspaper, he told us that they normally get newspapers after a month. If we are going to use newspaper to communicate to people who are that far, so that they can address themselves to the problems that we have in the capital, we will be joking. That is the reason you will hear some of them saying that they are going to Kenya, yet they are still in Kenya. It is because they believe that Turkana is not part of the country. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for us to have the Kenya that we want, the first thing that we should attend to is technology. This is one way of making sure that technology is with the people. Unless we have technology in the counties, where else would you say that technology is? This is an idea that we need to really embrace and marry it with our development. Take the budgets that some county assemblies are passing, for example. Some of them are passing budgets which are very far from reality. They are passing budgets for entertainment, pornography and to study how people are behaving. Surely, why can they not pass budgets to purchase two or three computers or recruit better skilled manpower in those assemblies, so that they can communicate with the Senate, the National Assembly or other counties? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the spirit of this Motion is good. It also indicates that the county assemblies cannot be complete without the Senators, because they are the ones who will provide the oversight role. So, this Motion can also be amended to include the office of the Senator at the county level, which should be interlinked with the county assembly, so that as soon as the Senator gets to his or her office, he/she will be able to communicate readily with members of the county assembly, without necessarily The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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