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    "content": "The duty of a Senator is also to go and say that he will not participate in micromanaging a project. We must ensure that we have water, a road, schools and hospitals. If you go to the counties, you will see that many facilities that Members of Parliament started constructing with the CDF have been abandoned. There are many abandoned health facilities. Some of our colleagues are coming up with new projects instead of finishing what was there. The CDF amount is handsome. The minimum that each constituency is getting is Kshs100 million which is a lot of money. Most of the facilities have been devolved. Health has been devolved and the Early Childhood Education (ECD) has been devolved. Environmental matters have also been devolved and the CDF is exclusively going into education and nowhere else. However, you will still see endless numbers of young disadvantaged children running to Senators asking for money for school fees. When you ask them why they do not go to their Members of Parliament, they tell you that the Member of Parliament said that since his family did not support his political campaign, then he cannot get bursary. The management of public resources in this country needs a rethink. It needs a redirection and it needs to be looked at. Recently, we supported the release of certificates. However, when you talk to the Chairman of the Committee on Education here, you will hear him asking how schools will mitigate the burden of debt that crooked parents who can afford to pay have never paid. Article 135 of the Constitution is very clear. The President and his Deputy are actually violating the Constitution by giving roadside pronouncements on matters of policy. The Constitution says that matters of policy must be in writing, signed and must be sealed."
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