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    "content": "We need to support them. We have those who are in dire need of education and we know that we need to support them. However, we also need to ask ourselves about the devolved funds that we have. For example bursaries, Women-Enterprise Development Fund, Youth Fund, Uwezo Fund and funds for the disabled and the elderly. Are those funds not assisting our people? We have become a country of so many funds until we need to ask ourselves; at the end of the day, we need to relook at it and analyze if the kitties have achieved their objectives. Have our people really felt the impact of these funds? Have they benefited from these funds? But we have people who are very focused and they are doing so well with the same funds. So, it is up to us also to create awareness. I hope the Bill also brings in the word “create awareness for Kenyans” to know that this hand out thing is going to put our country - and it has already done so - into a very critical situation. Some would even run away from their counties. That is why it is a challenge for us when we say that we want to have our own Fund. If we all believed that it is okay for all of us to have something, there would be no conflict. Governors have forgotten that the resources we give are not in the form of harambees. We go to our counties to make our people know what we have tabled in the Senate. We let people know that there are resources to be spent on particular issues. The governors are the implementers. Therefore, we have to work together with them. However, they have gone into competition with Members of Parliament again. Members of National Assembly have CDF. They give bursaries to students. They also spend some on building classrooms. Governors are now carrying out the same functions. They give women funds which have already been established through Her Excellency, Mama Rachel. They do not need the governor to support this. They give Kshs10 million as contribution and borrow money from there. She has taught women that they do not need to wait for county resources so as to grow economically. However, Governors have realised that this is a way of mobilising women closer to them. They have also decided to give money towards this end. However, we need to act with caution. This idea has supported many communities. I know that the Senate does not have any intentions of seeing the CDF go away. Let us be accountable. If this Senate does not stand up to pray for the values of this country, every Kenyan who gets up will continue to talk about money. Nobody realises that at times, it is not just money that transforms. At times, unity and good relationships can make a change in many ways. I urge religious leaders to look into where we went wrong. Why is it that Kenyans have become very desperate; that everybody wants to ensure that they have wealth regardless of where they get it? That is why some people will hold harambees. Instead of using their money for the harambees as it had been planned, it is used for something else. You will find religious leaders using the money to build houses and buy plots in their names. However, before the harambee was held, it was said that the plot would belong to the church. These are the things that make us wonder whether we should go to church or not or whether we should follow church services on television. This affects the whole social aspect. At times I wonder whether those who stand at the pulpits take a moment to think whether those attending their church services are still with them or whether they left the 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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