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    "content": "comedians are on the road yet it is the governor moving from one point to another. Why would he want to move with 20 four-wheel-drive vehicles when the county needs that money to treat HIV/AIDS patients? That is what goes on out there. The Senate must step up its oversight role. The other day, I found that service of a vehicle---. Each of these Senators has four-wheel- drive vehicles. If you take your four-wheel-drive vehicle to the garage, you could do everything including changing brakes using about Kshs62,000. Ordinarily, the normal service costs between Kshs12,000 to Kshs18,000. I found that my county services four-wheel-drive vehicles for Kshs500,000 each. If 10 cars are taken for service, that is equivalent to buying a new car and that is money wasted. These kinds of obscenities and wastage are actually criminal activities because that money could help safe life. As we spend Kshs500,000 to service one car, hospitals do not have drugs for malaria, needles or gloves for women to be assisted to deliver. That is appalling. These are things that we need to really – as Sen. (Dr.) Machage brings this Bill – make very watertight so that what it intends to do is what will be done. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I wish that the Senator even went further and determined that some percentage of the county funds must be put in this, even if it is 1 or 2 per cent. If a county gets Kshs10 billion, 1 per cent of Kshs10 billion, which is Kshs100 million, should go to the fight against HIV/AIDS. That could be done on pro rata down, depending on how much money you have. You can also, then, by law, encourage the national Government to assist donors to deal directly with county governments because, donors have lost faith in the monolith at the centre because of corruption. I hope that agencies that fight corruption will then, step in, not to fight corruption at the end of corruption but make it not to happen. People spend or steal money and you will find that nothing happens two years down the line. I have been telling the Auditor-General, Mr. Ouko, that we do not want those long old days of Mr. Njoroge of bringing postmortems to Parliament. Three years ago, some officials in the Ministry misappropriated funds. Some have died, others have resigned, others have been dismissed while others have left the country."
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