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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, what is worrying me now is when you go to the counties. You know we have devolved money and in my view, we are not giving them enough. Even the little we are giving them, the level of corruption going on down there is shocking. It is absolutely appalling. I just hope that the end of five years, it will be like Nigeria where they sent three quarters of the Governors to jail. That is how Nigeria went. The first five years of devolution, two thirds of the Governors went to jail because of corruption. When you go to the counties, some Governors are armed with cronies and tendering is just a ritual. They advertise tenders in the newspapers but there is no intention in their minds of going through that tender, it is just to satisfy the law. The winners of the tenders and those who participate in the tenders are not related. People are just called in the night and given forms that they have won tenders which they even did not tender for in return for a kickback. This is dangerous for our country. I want to see the Jubilee Coalition Government apply the law without fear or favour. Never mind that a Governor has entertained the Head of State, the Deputy President or a Senator like me. If he transgresses the law, hit him hard. That is the only way. We either start well or we never start at all. When against all scientific data a Governor tells the country that he has tarmacked 30 kilometres of a road in three months, even the most foolish person will not believe this and yet we are busy posting on the wall saying that he is the most hard working, positive, enlightened Governor. We are destroying our country. When a Governor, against the Constitution takes the load of a non devolved function and goes and buys 120 police cars when he has only 30 police establishments in his county, how do you explain this? That is the money the youth or the women would have used to procure something else. This Senate has its work cut out. The Khalwale Committee has to do pre-emptive strikes."
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