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    "content": "how to keep an account, how to know what is profit and what is loss and how to know how to grow what you have borrowed, then you can avail money to these great Kenyans. Madam Temporary Speaker, I am sure if this is done, it will make a big difference. Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale gave examples of doctors and lawyers that need money to start practices; but what about those that he forgot? We have out there in the rural areas, labour-based contracts in road construction. If you give these young people credit to just buy a tractor, a trailer and a few implements and so on for doing labour-based contracts to do roads, 10 kilometres of a murram road will pay back that loan in three months. These are areas that we should focus on; instead of encouraging youths to go and hang overnight in the high seas looking for fish, give them money to start a fish processing plant so that they can be able to get fish, process it and go to the market where they will withstand the vagaries of weather without getting spoilt. If you go to Bungoma or Kisii, you will see women who carry bunches of bananas in their hand at the market who go running after every vehicle that stops from morning to evening. We want credit to go and build for them huge storage facilities with cold rooms. So, if you take your tomatoes to the market whether you sell them or not, there is a place you leave them by 5.00 p.m. Currently, there will be “hawks” waiting around knowing that you cannot climb the hill of Nyambene with tomatoes on your head. So, you have to sell your tomatoes at a lower cost than the expected market price. This happens in Chwele Market in Bungoma, Karatina, Luanda and so on. Examples show that with proper planning we can be able to do this. That is why I agree with those who are saying that the Ministry of Devolution and Planning is misplaced. The funds we are putting there could have done better. The Cabinet Secretary knows that this is the custodian and the protector of devolution. Has she taken a moment to visit the Senate to talk to the Senators about devolution? If we are to work together and if she is truly the Minister for Devolution, this should be the starting point. Has she called a meeting between Governors and Senators to talk about defending and protecting and enhancing devolution? She has not because she is not the Cabinet Secretary for Devolution. She has just been mis-described as the Cabinet Secretary for Devolution. We must have our priorities right and that Kshs68 billion should be sent to the governors. The other day I was shocked to hear that the National Government wants to hire 30 nurses per constituency. Health services are devolved services. Why is the National Government hiring nurses when we have governors in the counties? It is the same graduates that we are talking about in this Motion that I want to be recruited. Why are we not taking the money to the governors? The other day you saw; we are talking about agriculture for growing the economy. The National Government is struggling to procure fertilizer and yet agriculture is a devolved activity. Why are we doing this? These are the big questions that everybody must ask. Madam Temporary Speaker, there are so many services that the centre is holding on so hard because they involve money. You cannot devolve a system where you send governors just to be paying salaries and nothing else. We must create jobs. If we are crying about rural-urban migration – I saw some statistics that show that in Africa in the next ten years, our population will move from 22 per cent urban up to close to 50 per cent 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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