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    "content": "at the things that we have witnessed since the Jubilee Coalition came into power. Kenyans were promised three million title deeds and a budget prepared to process the same. But not even 20 per cent of those titles have been given to the citizens of this country. We also saw choppers flying from Nairobi to Galana in Tana River. The leadership promised Kenyans that one million acres of land will be put under irrigation and food shortage will never be experienced again in this country. Three years down the line, despite those billions that were spent, not a single maize cob has been harvested from the Galana project. This country is constructing a railway line at a cost of hundreds of billions of shillings, when the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) have been sleeping in the streets and tents since they were displaced. The leadership in this country can afford to take wine, enjoy and walk on the red carpet when poor Kenyans from all over this country are suffering. The funds given to the counties should serve the intended purposes. However, if the top leadership has failed to eliminate corruption, how will the governors manage resources? The top leadership of this country is out to block issues of corruption, for example, the Karen land saga, where we can trace those involved. In this country, there are those who have been allowed to mess up and squander public funds and those who are supposed to use them properly. That is wrong. Devolution was meant to serve Kenyans. Today, we want to devolve health services. The best way to do it is to have doctors and nurses employed by the central Government, so that the Government can deal with the workers in this country, including those working in the health sector. This is because there is no governor who has the capacity to deal with the doctors and nurses. Let the governors construct hospitals and do the infrastructural works, but let the staff be paid by the national Government, just like the teachers. We know that there is no single county which can handle the issue of teachers. Forget about the county, there is no single region, not even a Ministry alone, which has the capacity to manage teachers in this country. So, it would be wise to have the teachers employed and paid by the central Government so that we can address those problems to the right place. Let the counties construct classrooms and put up new schools. That should be the work of counties. If the Government has provided teachers and the counties fail to construct classrooms, children can even read under the tree and they will succeed. We require teachers to take care of our children. Madam Temporary Speaker, there is no way we can have chiefs, assistant chiefs and the assistant county commissioners placed under the management of counties. This is because the governors will behave as if they have their own military set up and start terrorizing their residents. We want those three sectors to remain at national level. Madam Temporary Speaker, I support this Motion. The Government should be serious in addressing issues that are stipulated in this Motion. I beg to support. 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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