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    "content": "supposed to be the vanguards of morality and good leadership, yet they also put us under the same severe strain. I am sure that it has come at the right moment. I believe that it has not made it any cumbersome, but it has finally tried to streamline a process that has been constantly abused. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I have seen this in county governments, particularly by county Governors. When they give fundraisings, cheques that are written as emergency funds of the county, are made to appear as if these are resources from their personal pockets. County governments must distinguish between the points when they are making contributions of county governments and that point. It must be published. I heard the Senator for Kakamega, the Senator for Bungoma and several other Senators say that they were at a place with their county governors when they came with their Ksh2 million cheques and asked where the Senator’s contribution was. This is the kind of abuse that we have manipulated the public, our political processes and Government. It is time to streamline. I think that in future, we must also have a distinction. Finally, I was also brought up through support from public institution. If I want to issue Constituency Development Fund (CDF) cheques, why should I take 500 parents, line them up to give them cheques of Ksh10,000. Why can I not give them through their bank accounts? Do you think there is any pride in being poor? Why do we always parade our people for petty political benefit? They conduct a ceremony to present cheques for bursaries that come either as CDF or county bursaries. They mobilise parents under the scorching sun, just because they are poor and start presenting the cheques so as to manipulate them politically. Why can they not deliver these cheques to the universities? We must ban these public demonstrations and humiliation. I was also supported but nobody called me to a public forum. There is no pride in being poor, so do not humiliate people just because they are poor, by forcing them to line up for food or bursary and yet this money is legitimately theirs. Let us send these bursaries to the school accounts. When you look at the monies that were used to just conduct that launching of the ceremony, it is mind-boggling. This kind of dishonesty in the political structures of our country must be dealt with. We must have sincere public policy. Most of those who distribute these cheques have never been to school. They do not know the pain of being poor. They were never beneficiaries of fundraising. Therefore, they keep lining up poor people for cheap political mileage. With those few remarks, I beg support."
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