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    "content": "simple things that should have been dealt with by the Parliamentary Service Commission, including facilitation of Senators to oversight and defend county government, have failed. They have failed so much that I do not know what our three commissioners are still doing there. They are, as I speak today, unable to see the difference between a county office and a constituency office, to the extent that the 12 constituency offices that are there in Kakamega County are facilitated to equal measure with the county office itself. So, whereas I am supposed to run the affairs of 12 constituencies and 60 wards, I am facilitated in equal measure to a Member of the National Assembly who is supposed to run and oversight the affairs of one constituency, which on the average, has got one Member of the National Assembly and four wards. We would like this new Senate Service Committee to come to grasps with these issues and sort them out once and for all. Madam Temporary Speaker, Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo raised the issue of what has unfortunately befallen his county. But it should not be lost to this country and Senate that similar things are happening in many other counties. Just two days ago, 750 people were moved from Uganda by buses and crossed the Malaba border. They are now in a makeshift camp set in Busia County. Some of them might be Kenyans and others Ugandans. For all we care to know, even some of them could be Members of Al Shabaab . The Senator for Busia and the Senators who have the DNA that forces them to be concerned about that particular county, I being one of them, do not have the facilities to quickly go in and establish exactly how the arrival of these 750 “foreigners” have come. Who are they? They are former refugees who were living in Uganda, when they moved out after the post election violence. The girls aged 14 years who went to Uganda at that time are now women and have given birth. The boys have married Ugandans. Screening must be done so that we establish who are the bona fide people who should be admitted back into Kenya and, therefore, the County of Busia. Madam Temporary Speaker, I would like to urge the Senate Services Committee to be very serious with its work. We do not want them to be petty; to give the impression that we are creating this particular service committee for us to get a salary increment. I would appreciate if I got a salary increment, because I do my job, just like Sen. Muthama and Sen. Ongoro do their job. I saw Sen. Muthama in Kathiani over the weekend and Sen. Ongoro in Mukuru Kwa Reuben eight days ago spending her resources. When you hosted us there, I was wondering how unlucky you are, but you had not solicited for any funding from us. These are the challenges that Nominated Senators have, that we, the elected Senators, do not have. This is because I do not have to set up any meeting in any other county the way you did. Since you are nominated Senator, you have a national constituency. The women in Siaya expect you to do for them just as much as you do for the women in Nairobi. That is not to imply that the Senator for Siaya himself is not up to it. But it is because you have a better connection to the women of Siaya than Sen. Orengo. Of course, when I say “connection” and I will be forgiven by the Senator, I do not mean connection in biological terms. Madam Temporary Speaker, we want to put pressure. We would like to the Senate Services Committee to now have a structured meeting with the Salaries and 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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