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    "content": "one borehole using my little resources. If I do not have the machine to dig the borehole, we may have to do it manually. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, leaders should understand their roles. If you are elected as a Governor, you should use those resources that you have been allocated in a wise manner so that you are accountable. Today, we are being labeled anti-devolution and yet we are not. The message I would like to pass to the Governors is that they should concentrate on the utilization of funds because that is the main issue. We have the Auditor-General who goes round and audits their records. Senators do not go to the counties to check records, but we receive reports from the counties through the Controller of Budget and the Auditor-General. These are the reports that we interrogate. Particularly in the case of Embu, we used the reports that were brought to this Floor and the Motion from the county. So, it is actually the Members of the County Assemblies (MCAs) that should play a very vital role in the counties, because they oversight the executive. But I think that the problem that we have is that they are oversighting an executive maybe which is wiser than them. So, we need to carry out civic education so that the MCAs can understand their work. That way, they will be helping the Senate. They should not think that the Senate is anti-devolution, because we cannot cut a tree from the bottom, when we are standing on the branch of that tree. This is because it means that the whole process is going to collapse. But I just want to assure everyone that the Senate is here to support devolution. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I just want to ask the national Government to roll out immediately this civic education, so that people can be aware and interrogate what is happening out there. This is because the public is the best watchdog for the people. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to support."
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