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"content": "now? Is it not going to be used by the same people? Where is the guarantee that those who were there before and failed to display transparency will start doing justice to Kenyans with this one here? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there is a dam in my county that generates electricity. We all know the cost of electricity in this country. My county does not benefit in any manner from the electricity generated. If that money is given to a sub-location with leaders who cannot even manage a nursery school, it will not benefit the people. Sometimes it is amazing to see how the local administrators like the chiefs and the assistant chiefs behave. They intimidate people so that they can be given money through sale of chang’aa or karubu. This goes on up to the level of the county. Look at what is happening now in the whole country. If we start talking about corruption, you will find that it goes up to the church level. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the problem in this country is not authorities, but Kenyans themselves. When I look at this Committee which consists of a chairperson appointed by the President, but most of the time, it is about allowances. What are the expected resources to be generated? The committee might go there and allocate itself huge allowances at the expense of the common mwananchi who expects to be assisted. At the end of the day, I would be happy with amendment that whatever money is collected through revenue from water, it should be spent to construct schools. When the money is collected, it should be directed towards construction of primary, secondary school, a polytechnic, a dispensary or health centre, water borehole and so on. We should not leave it open to this authority so that it is open to misuse. In Kenya, people receive money and submit accounts which are not correct. It says here that the commission will submit its accounts at the end of the year based on the funds received and spent. These are the same people when they spent Kshs10, they prepare an expenditure document of Kshs1000. When they spent Kshs1,000,000, the expenditure document will be camouflaged to show that they over- spent what they received. In fact, they will want the Government to come in and bail them out. The idea and the intention is good, but I want to say that for this to work, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) should change how it works. In the last one year, they have prosecuted only three people when there are over 10,000 cases presented to them. If people have stolen and then it goes on for five or ten years without them being prosecuted, what will bar others from stealing? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the idea is perfect, but we need to lay down restrictions. For this NRBSA to receive money and not mismanage the same, action needs to be taken. That action starts with the President himself. He should make sure that his Government is performing. The President of the Republic of Kenya is in a state of confusion. He is issuing public statements saying that in his office there are people who want to enrich themselves or make money. The President says that, but tomorrow we do not hear anything about anybody being arrested. When we look at all this confusion, we ask ourselves, in all this, who are the thieves and who are not? We are in the midst of people who might be thieves and others who might be innocent. So, if you walk through that office, you feel unsafe because you do not know who is a thief and who is not. When you present your issue, we do not know what you 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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