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"content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I wish to congratulate the Mover of this Motion, Sen. (Dr.) Zani. The Motion is well thought out. As a leader or as a governor, you must know where you are coming from and where you are going. I worked for a private organization. Immediately you entered that office, you were expected to do a “Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats” (SWOT) analysis. You had to look at your strengths, weaknesses and threats for you to formulate your plan. Now that we are in the era of devolution, there is public participation. We have people out there, the citizens who voted for the Constitution, who expect a lot from us. Governors must deliver. How will they deliver if they do not have plans in place? We have Vision 2030. When governors plan, they should capture what the national Government has in place for them in the counties within Vision 2030. When you plan, as a county, you should also look at your strengths. For example, in Trans Nzoia County, I would look at the strengths as the food basket of the country because it produces a lot of maize. When you are planning, that should be one of the major items that you should capture in your plans. As Sen. Moses Wetangula said, we produce a lot of maize which finds its way outside the county. It is milled and then sold back to the county very expensively. How do we protect that? The governor needs to sit down with county assembly members because they have to approve part of those plans and protect their economy. Where there is a weakness, for instance, in counties like Turkana which buy their foodstuffs from outside, you need to find out how you will feed your people in the next five years. We should have a shift towards things like industrialization because they provide value addition. They also offer jobs and raise revenue. Counties that have weaknesses should look at such opportunities because these will create jobs for people in places like Turkana County since they cannot grow crops like maize. Pastoralists keep animals, but during the dry spell, they lose their animals, which is a big loss. Some of these animals cannot be insured or, probably, insurance companies are not ready to insure them. Development plans are very important. We would like to know where we will be in the next five years. When you start off in the first year, you may suggest putting up, for instance, a plant to manufacture cooking fat. In my county, we grow soya beans and sunflowers. Those two components can be used to manufacture cooking fat. However, with regard to planning, in the first year, we may not achieve this. That means that we should stagger the project in the first year, second year, and third year up to the fifth year. At the end of the five years, that is when governors and Senators will be judged. We are supposed to oversight governors. We are supposed to oversight them so that as they plan, they know what we are also planning, our strengths and weaknesses. I also know that in Trans Nzoia, one of our weaknesses is lack of jobs. Our youth are idle. When the governor is planning, he needs to see how to engage the youth so that 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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