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"content": "We have seen people competing and knocking each other. Even some of our colleagues in this House; people who did not have even a second car and lived the humblest of humble lives, I respect people like Sen. (Prof.) Lesan here, a humble professor from the university who has come to the Senate and he leads a decent life. I have seen some young Senators here who have now lifted from the ground, and live in the air, donating Ksh1million every weekend, and you know very well that these young men do not have money. These are just corrupt proceeds. We have heard that heads of parastatals are even complaining as to how many of them are knocking on their doors and demanding “protection” fees. That is the money they are using to hire helicopters and flying to all parts of the country to donate and say: “Sisi ni wana maendeleo.” These are the same young men who a year ago did not even have a car. If the young are corrupt to that extent, where is our country headed to? Until and unless we regulate, check each other and search ourselves; that when Sen. (Prof.) Lesan, whose capacity and ability we know, all of a sudden donates a million shillings every weekend and broadly smiling to be clapped for and called “Bwana Maendeleo” and is reminded that he came late, he should have come earlier, then we have a rotten country. This runaway abuses unchecked, we are instilling a culture in our society for our own children and grand children to start thinking that for you to be a good father or a grandfather, you must have a lot of money; that for you to be a good Christian is directly proportional to how much you donate to your church. They have now forgotten “fungu la kumi” and nobody talks about it. When you turn up in a church, you are told: “Now that Professor is here, our problems are solved” na wewe umeenda kuomba Mungu. If you go through this Bill, you will see that all these things that Professor and I have talked about are addressed. Yes, within acceptable limits, sanity and reason, we can be benevolent to society, ourselves and friends. Let harambees not be means of extortion. Those of you who are doing the first term may not know this, as you are busy running around as a Member of Parliament (MP) being terrorized for harambees and so on, there is somebody sitting in a Government office who is going to take your seat, who is stealing money from everybody who goes there for service and who is going to donate money every weekend. That is why we passed a law that six months to elections, there shall be no harambees. That law is not tight enough because no harambees for us MPs but those who are eyeing the seat still go on out there. Then you will be put on a scale; who is bwana maendeleo ? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, over and above this law, we want to audit the development structures in the counties. What is tormenting wananchi about harambees? What is it that devolved funds can do? If you go to the counties today, the wastage that is going on is too much. If you go to a governor’s office, the secretary, who earns Kshs30,000 and has only been on the job for two years, is driving a brand new Prado. The governors have surrounded themselves with advisors on women, disabled persons, the youth, special programmes, politics, hunger and soon they will have an advisor on girlfriends and so on. We also have chief of staff. Each of these employees is driving a brand new Prado. These are public resources. On top of that, they are giving our children Kshs3,000 for bursary. 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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