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    "content": "You can imagine; you are over-sighting a county Government that is choking Kshs.10 billion from allocations from the Senate and local revenues. You do not have the capacity even to go and verify whether they built a box culvert on a dry stream or not. You do not even have the capacity to go and confirm whether the cattle dips that they have put in the books were built or not. I have seen in my county because I have been an MP. We used to manage CDF kitty before in my constituency. We used to build classrooms. I am sure Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o, Sen. Murungi and Sen. Orengo know this. Today, Early Childhood Education and Development (ECED) classrooms that are half the size of a normal standard classroom are being built at a cost of Kshs1.7million in the counties. This is nothing short of outright fraud and theft and yet the distinguished Senator for Meru has no capacity even to look for a quantity surveyor and go and evaluate whether that classroom actually cost that kind money or not. Then what are you over-sighting? You have no capacity to oversight anything. We end up being persons with titles, distinctions, but persons that are just scarecrows. All we do is to bark like dogs barking at a new moon at the beginning of every month then wait for the cycle. Again, a new moon comes and the whole village dogs bark from 6.00 p.m. to midnight because they have seen this strange object from the East that they have never seen. At the end of the day, nothing happens. The Senate and Senators must be empowered. In doing this, I salute one Mr. Peter Oloo Aringo. This is the man who started the journey to autonomy and independence of Parliament. This journey is incomplete. With the advent of the “Upper” House, it must be given true meaning. When we came here; we came to Parliament at the same time with the distinguished Senators for Meru and Kisumu. Sen. Orengo had come much earlier. On an average day, the parking out here, this side was like a poorly managed open air garage. Every car had its bonnet open from morning to evening."
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