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    "content": "We need to see how we can go to some of the frontier areas that we have never been to before, open them up and remove this congestion we see in Nairobi. Nairobi is attracting people to do what? Our people have this belief that if you go to the city, you can get a job and live a good life. But our counties can develop and we would see in the counties’ key agendas points where they are saying they are opening up areas far away from the county headquarters so that they also do not crowd and have mini “Nairobis” in the county headquarters. For example, where I come from, I would like to see us opening up the exterior of Kacheliba which is very flat and where we can do irrigation. We can extend the Wei Wei Irrigation Scheme. That is an agenda which will bring a lot of revolution there and people can move away from the urban areas. Madam Temporary Speaker, we keep on hearing a song where people are saying that a lot of money has been taken to the counties; this is what some National Assembly Members and some people in the Executive keep on saying. They say: “Can they consume the money they have first so that we can see whether they have the capacity?” I want to see how the county Governments and the governors can come up with their strategies and roll out these programmes. We can compare and now show them that this is what has been done with this money. Madam Temporary Speaker, we need to hold one another accountable and systems must be in place. In the same vein, I want to know who will handle the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF). Is the Implementation Committee responsible? Before we move on to this system, there have been very many great challenges, particularly from counties where some of us come from, where the auditors from Nairobi do not reach. Will the county governor now audit the CDF people on the ground? Who will do it? We are going to see to it ourselves that we oversee the plans for the county governments, but what about the other ones? So, in one way or the other, we need to see how we can integrate our own supervision to ensure that issues that touch on the development in the counties are done. Madam Temporary Speaker, in this fashion where we are saying we now have a level checking one level, I support this amendment as has been suggested. Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker."
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