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"speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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"content": " Madam Temporary Speaker, these are the obscenities that we must curb. This money goes to the counties for development and we want to see some rationalization. That is why this lady who makes a lot of irrelevant noises called Mrs. Serem; that is the area she should be focusing on instead of dealing with irrelevant issues. When we devolved power and resources, it was expected that the Governor lives in the county where life is cheaper. The people working would be about 80 per cent from the county, where life is cheaper. They would save the money, go and make roads, bring water, schools and everything that the people desire in their counties. But what do we have today? If you go to every county and ask, first of all, about the bloated wage bill, for example, I visited my friend, Governor Oparanya in Kakamega and I was shocked to find out, when he showed me his figures, that he has almost 82 per cent recurrent expenditure. So, he is left with just about 18 per cent or less for development. In such a vast county, the roads are impassable, there is no water, there are no nursery schools, the hospitals have no medicine and yet we have devolved all the medical services. This is where you will now find crooked people supplying chalk as quinine to people; and supplying all manner of contraband in lieu of good services to people. What must we do, Madam Temporary Speaker? First of all, I want to urge my colleagues across the Floor that even if we do not agree on anything else, let us agree to take money to the grassroots for development because we need those tarmacked roads. We need, at least in the 10th year of devolution if not less, to see and it is my dream to see that every household has running water; it is my dream to see that, after 10 years of devolution, nobody is unable to reach home when they want to go home because there is a bad road. Yesterday, a friend of mine invited me to go to Kajiado, where my good friend, Sen. Mositet, comes from. After Ngong, we were to go to a place called Kibiko, Kibicho or whatever they call the place. After five or ten kilometers, we turned back because there is no road; it is a cattle track and no car can pass there! Only lorries going to look for farmyard manure in the valley can climb through that road. This is, in fact, the second year of devolution and that is a critical road running from Ngong Town to Suswa, then on to Maai Mahiu and back to Magadi and it is 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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