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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I think in many of the counties that I know, we have situations where elected Members of the County Assemblies are not in talking terms with the Members of Parliament. They complain that they do not know what the Member of Parliament is doing with the CDF because they are not involved. The Member of Parliament is also not talking to them. In another county, you will find that a Member of Parliament is not talking to the Governor and the Governor is not talking to the Members of Parliament. Recently, the Governors went round talking to people trying to do what is called the county integrated development plans. There have been complaints from Members of the National Assembly with regard to how they can complete a development plan for the county without their input being taken into account. We also have situations where Senators and Governors are not talking. The Senator will just be reading in the newspaper what the Governor has done. A clear case is the Machakos County one where a Senator had even to go to court because he was not properly involved. So that administrative chaos is affecting development in the country, and I think time has come for leaders to sit down together because we are the ones who made promises to the people. The Member of the County Assembly promised the ward what development they were going to do in the ward. It is the Member of the County Assembly who will be asked after five years what they have done for the five years. It will not be the chief or any other leader; it will be the Member who got the votes from the people who will answer that question. At the sub-county level or the constituency level, it is the Member of Parliament who will be asked by the constituents how they have delivered on the various promises they made to them. At a higher level, the Senator will also have questions to answer because all of us promised to do things back at home. I know Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo must have promised the people of West Pokot that he would do something about insecurity in that region and how they are going to enhance farming and mining in the area although he might have no linkage at all with the events taking place at the county so that after five years, he is not even in a position to know what happened regarding the promises that he made. But if we are in a Board where we sit, maybe the Governor can come and tell us what they are doing with the money they got and then we will advise them on what else to do."
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