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    "content": "projects has he brought? As if the public resources that we are fighting over to be allocated to our counties is nothing. As if the resources they are using were personal resources created by the county on their own. We must start appreciating and dissuade members of the public, state and public officers from this mentality that an individual is a giver of development; even those who have been told that they are going to be watchmen, managers, custodians and trustees of public resources on behalf of the people. You convert it to become like you brought development to the people. That behaviour must be routed out so that the people themselves will say we are the ones who decided under county integrated development plans that we will put this project here. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, last weekend, I went around my county and addressed a few persons in meetings and along the roads. I realised that our people need to know better. A county government is not a private entity or a preserve of a few people who have been made managers of those counties. It is collective governance that has a place for the Senators, governors, MCAs, but an even bigger place for the people because they are the ones who determine where development is going. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, at the Committee Stage, we need to propose greater sanctions on those who are not going to abide by the principles enunciated in Article 232. We also need to provide a clear mechanism of compensation. There should be a mechanism for rewarding even that sweeper who sweeps the office of the Clerk of the county assembly so well, so that there must be a place in the hall of fame that says that there was a great sweeper in this county. That there was a great security person in this county and a great clerk in this county. It must not be that always greatness is attributed to the person who has been given more. It should be that the person who has become faithful in whatever; whether it is big or little that has been given to a particular office, that office and that person should be rewarded. I like what this provision of the Act says; that if a member of public who is being served by an office finds in his or her wisdom that a particular public officer has done well, they must commend and give feedback. This is a culture that we must inculcate in our people; that saying thank you is not wrong. In this country when you remind somebody for not having thanked a certain public officer for serving you well, what they say is: “Why should I thank him, he was employed to do so”. Courtesy and appreciation will assist that public officer to double his effort; to appreciate feedback. Let us not only give feedback because it is negative, but we must also be able to give feedback because it is positive. That is what we must achieve. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, even within this Senate, we must move forward and provide a criteria of how public officers are going to be rewarded and recognized for the service they are giving to the people at the county level and even at the national level. I believe that it is very sad that Parliament has received a lot of negative publicity in the recent past because we are not abiding by Articles 73 and 75 of the Constitution. Even amongst ourselves we should not always protect each other even when we know that there are rotten elements that are giving us bad publicity. We must be able to tell them that enough is enough and that this Parliament must be protected as an integral institution of this country. 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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