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    "content": "our Chairperson comes from, with a lion’s share of four per cent. Other counties like mine, where a lot of people are, we are only getting two per cent. Time has come for us, as the Senate, to hire our own experts, so that we can critic whatever reports we are getting from the CRA. We get figures two days before. We do not even have the tools to be able to unpack and analyse the data we are receiving from the CRA. The time has come for the Senate to have its own funds to hire experts to look at the basis for a fairer distribution of the resources at the national level. Finally, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I know that it is our duty, as Senators, to oversight the county governments. The word “oversight” comes from the word “oversee.” It is for us to oversee the flow of funds to the county governments and how those funds are being used. I know there is very strong resistance from the county governments in what is seen as Senator’s interference with the counties. But when you are given a broad mandate like overseeing, it does not say you oversee the end; you should also oversee the beginning and the middle. So, we should oversight the counties all the way from the planning, to see whether public participation is properly being carried out. We should oversee to see whether the plans themselves make sense or not. We should oversight the implementation of those projects. We should even oversight the"
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