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    "content": "“tenderpreneurship”. This has affected all the employees. For example, in my county, they have decided to engage in a huge project of building a county assembly worth Kshs420 million. This means that the project will be completed after almost 20 years since only Kshs20 million is allocated per year. This decision was taken by people who did not do consultations with the Transition Authority, the Ministry of Public Works and so on. Therefore, this has left a mess on the ground. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I had the privilege of going with you to your county and we found them meeting under a tent. I do not know whether that was a county assembly or not. I was shocked that they had a small house in the name of an assembly. If Kajiado can be like that and yet it is near Nairobi, what about counties which are far- flung? This, therefore, calls upon the Senate – and that is why we thank Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki for bringing this Motion at this time. It is never too late for the national Government to carry the cross. They should have done it long time ago. There is no way you can give birth to a baby and disappear. It is only a tortoise that does that. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, instead of counties building one administration block, in order to get kickbacks, they are constructing several of them in one line yet they should have done one building which is easy to manage. In the building that we constructed, we even proposed, the office of the Senator and all the Members of Parliament (MPs) to be there so that once in a while before they go to their constituencies, they pass there, look at the reports to ascertain what the governor and the county governments have done for their respective constituencies. Then, now they move from a point of knowledge. It they have any issue after visiting their constituencies, they return there and give the report to their respective offices. This was not done. That is why we have this scramble where even Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o cannot go to the office. One time, you might have seen someone in the television make a bad show saying that you cannot come in here; this building belongs to one person. Similarly, this is the case everywhere. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is not late to correct some of these mistakes which were done earlier. We are not doing it for ourselves. We are doing it for the future generations of the people of Kenya and beyond. As I support this, I want to propose a slight amendment to this Motion. I beg to move:- THAT, this Motion be amended by adding the following two names immediately after the last name which is no.7, Sen. Sijeny:- (8) Sen. Christopher Obure (9) Sen. (Prof.) John Lonyangapuo These two Senators will assist us very much. They are the people who transacted that business that I have just talked about. They have all the data, drawings and all the officers who were involved even if they are in the counties, they can be recalled to come and assist the Senate to put things in perspective once and for all. Every county will benefit because all of them had been done. The work of the Senate will be easy. We will just visit some of them. However the work had been done. 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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