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    "content": "progress reports for every country so that we can all be apprised and see a coordinated plan for the entire country as envisaged in the Vision 2030. I know that when the Vision 2030 was written, no specific agenda was identified for every county. Now, we can get some of the plans that had not been brought forward from every county. For example, where I come from, my governor and county government officers came up with development agendas that are very specific. We should see the value additions that are taking place in that county. We keep a lot of cattle. For a long time, my county had been a closed district; therefore, we were not able to sell these valuable animals to key markets in Kenya and outside. I expect that a key agenda that will be put forward by my county government and other pastoralist county governments would be how they can process animal products from what they have in their counties; how they can have access to ready markets in some counties which they did not have access to. This way, they should get investors coming to invest directly in their counties. The other issue that I have seen as being very key and which we should look at properly in this Senate is the manufacturing of some of the goods there. For example, my colleague neighbour from Trans Nzoia County talked about maize which we grow every year and take all the way to so many maize milling plants in Mombasa, which then return it back to us as a finished product. But when we have key development agendas that are deliberately targeted for every county, there is nobody who can do it, except the governor and we will oversee whatever that they will be doing. We can see to it that our people get employment in those regions where the original raw materials emanate from. We know, for example, that the nation’s attention is now focused on Turkana County where oil has been discovered. Where will that oil be processed? How will that county benefit from it? So, I am looking at it in the sense that one of the key development agendas which that county must submit to us is how they are planning to process that oil. Is there a level of manufacturing taking place in Turkana County for this precious mineral that has been discovered? If not, then it means there is something that we need to do as the Senate. We should step in and say “we have to see a degree of manufacturing taking place at the source” so that we can improve the level of investments in that area. Our target in this Motion is to see how the social sector develops and how the economic sector also expands on top of the political sector. The social sector can only be built when the economic sector becomes strong. Madam Temporary Speaker, I remember that since Independence, we have always sung about the three enemies; hunger, disease and ignorance. If we come up with key development plans that target to eradicate or minimize these problems, it will be great. But you find that in some areas, the national Government still gives people relief food every year, yet these are healthy people who can work. No plans have been put in place for irrigation in those areas which have water so that these people can wake up and work for themselves. This Motion comes at a time that we need to focus, move from the usual way of operating as Kenyans and go to areas we have never thought of before. Who knew that coffee would grow? Now we have coffee growing in Kiambu. I am told that Kiambu is almost replacing coffee with buildings. But if we remove that, that would be a problem now. 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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