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    "content": "things which are going to be done in the media. Senators were not involved. Indeed, some of those ideas proposed in those CIDPs were merely a collection of old reports from the previous governments which were just desktop; there was no public participation. You heard what some governor did after preparing the report; they called people for lunch and that was the public participation, to read the reports to them. The Senators have to be empowered, so that we can critically analyze those CIDPs, make the reviews and also participate in the budget proposals to make sure they capture the interest of the people in the county or whether we are merely building white elephants. Madam Temporary Speaker, we have to follow up and monitor the projects that are being done in the counties. We cannot be waiting to cry after the monies have been spent or after the cows have left the boma. We have to be there so that we can put proper fencing. That is why I am saying that there is need for the Senate to be adequately resourced. In fact, even when I was in the civil society, we used to do a lot of projects and in every project, we used to put an administrative cost and a cost for evaluation and monitoring for us to know whether what we did was really making sense and whether we had an impact or not. We should leave some percentage of the money we are sending to the counties for the purposes of monitoring and oversight. I had already given an amendment to the Clerk to this effect; that an amendment to the Report of the Senate Standing Committee-"
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