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    "content": "These deals permeate everywhere; even skunks are being declared as good transactions. The Houses of Parliament must perform their roles. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I salute those of us who spear headed to go to court to look for interpretation on how our functions go in as far as these kind of Bills are concerned. Even with the court ruling in our hands, nobody in the Executive seems to remember that we are there. We go out there and they say here are Maseneta. It is a sad day for this country; it is a terribly sad day for this country. If I had my way, this Kshs226 billion should not see the light of day. We should go for the Kshs279 billion that Cheserem recommended. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let us not allow anybody to blackmail governors and counties. You are told that they have no absorption capacity. We were told by the distinguished Chairperson of the Committee, they have the capacity absorbs just about 15 to 20 per cent of development funds. You hand over to governors an extremely convoluted and draconian procurement law, and then you tell them that they are not able to absorb money. You give them money. In three months, you are declaring them failures when procurement takes up to six months with appeals and appeals upon appeals. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, again, if this House wants to help counties, I want to encourage both sides of the House to take it upon ourselves to look at the procurement law. How we can help without compromising accountability, trust and honesty? We should look at how the money we send to the counties can be put to good use in a more simplified, but accountable manner like what we are saying today. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is important to caution some of the Governors we have seen engaging in very errant activities. A governor has no business taking this money we are taking to them to purport to perform functions that are strictly national functions. You have seen a governor going to buy 120 police cars, when you know that police activities are a national function."
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