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    "content": "It is now more important and so urgent that we must in our time have these boards which are not executive the way it has been proposed here. They will not accrue any sitting allowances the way some people have been imagining. This should be a board where we can check some of these funny excesses. I do not know whether some of you have noted that what is developing in the counties and we are going to soon discuss it in this Senate; when the chief executive officers are going out to carry out their duties in their own counties, they are paid per diem . How can you be paid when you are in the jurisdiction of your service? There are erroneous things that are already happening. If this board was there, it would have made sense when we have Members of the National Assembly who are as few as the number of constituencies in your county and the Senator who plays the oversight role. When I am oversighting in Nairobi, am I not supposed to oversight on the ground? When I am protecting the county government and the counties, what am I supposed to do? Every inch of West Pokot County should be known by me. I should know which soil has been taken by anybody. How will we know those things if we are not sitting together in a forum? There is also another thing which is coming out that is very interesting where people are now refusing to work from their counties. Instead of going for training in hotels in their counties, they fly to Mombasa. Who told them not to build hotels in their counties? Instead, they should create airstrips in their counties. When I asked, I was told that they do not have room. I told them that they can purchase tents which they can use for the time they have not developed. The other day, Mr. Temporary Speaker, when I was in your county, I challenged the executive committee members that I wanted to see the beautiful scenery of Elgeyo Marakwet and that I wanted to know where I could spend the night. They told me to postpone the holiday up to February next year when they will have built a hotel at Rimoi. That is the type of language I want to hear, so that they stop travelling to Mombasa and in turn clear all the votes and go back home to West Pokot and Mandera. They think that they are making progress. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have to step in and put some of these things in order. A classic example is Machakos County which has beautiful drawings of an upcoming city. Other counties can also do those drawings. It was so honourable that all the leaders in that county sat together so that when they have the energy, they will then move to implement rather than fighting each other. It is not a campaign period. We should not compete to see who is stronger between the Senator and the Governor. When problems arise in the form of disasters, they will need each other. I want to thank the Mover of this Motion and say that we should cascade it to the three levels; the county, the sub-county and the ward. I have just read here that in the sub- county we are saying that the National Assembly Member chairs, which is right, but all the Members of the County Assembly must be members. I have not seen that. I have pointed this out to the author. We need to insert that so that they are also included to bring their ideas. The cooking point is the ward then it is upgraded. Finally, when we are here together, things are done properly and efficiently. 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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