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    "content": "he wants to recruit, it means, therefore, that the Senator will not have any power to do anything in his county. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Motion is, therefore, trying to address the powers of a Senator. That is why we feel that it is good. It has come at the right time, and when it comes, we will be in a position to even question some of the things which are happening. We cannot question them now because we have no mandate, and it is not spelt out in the Constitution. We have no money allocated to us. The other day we were trying to debate how we can get Kshs1 billion and it was not possible. So, we cannot even ask how the governors are using Kshs1 billion or Kshs5 billion, because of the limited resources that we have. Some of us represent vast counties; counties where we have about eight to 10 Members of Parliament, and these MPs, going by the past, have more monetary powers than what we can claim to have. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we feel like if nothing changes, we will be a dejected House. We will be a belittled House that has no powers at all. A House that cannot oversee anything happening in the county, and this to us will be detrimental to the operations of this House. When this Motion is passed and effected, I am sure the Senate will be seen like a House, not only of records but a serious House; a House which can discipline some of these wayward governors and some of the officers, because we have developed a team, and that is what the Motion is calling for. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is important, therefore, that we scrutinize even the budgets of the county governors. Some of the officers who discuss these budgets are not qualified at all. So, you find that they overspent, but even if they did, we cannot have any question because we have no space, we have no monetary power and we are overruled by the structure of the senatorial programme. I support."
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