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    "content": "and order in the cattle rustling prone zones, in the areas where we have terrorism around the border of Kenya and Somalia and so on. When you ask why, they say because it has monetary implications. How can anybody imagine a Senator representing a whole county being told that whatever he has brought does not touch on that? Where are the KPRs? They are all in the counties, and so on. The second one about village elders was passed and it has disappeared, and so many others just to mention a few. It is time that we looked at this and enhanced the capacity of the Senate as well as that of the National Assembly to work in tandem. There is also another proposal here that has been given by the Committee; nominees of people who should be vetted, and I agree that Senate needs to have a hand particularly on the officers vetted here. The National Assembly should work with officers that come with any government. Normally, they go with the government of the day. But we deal with people who are permanent and pensionable for the duration that they are there. The beauty about this recommendation of raising money going to the county from 15 percent minimum, you now raise to a correct figure. We have been dealing with 15 percent minimum. The first time we were told it came to 23 percent, the other one 33 percent and recently we were told the one that we had just passed was 43 percent. We specified a permanent figure which is 40 percent so that if the money goes, even the national Government requires money. A lot of brilliant proposals have been put here. Madam Temporary Speaker, I would prefer that we study these recommendations, bring it to the public so that we see how this can be improve the document that governs Kenya better. Some MCAs are today mishandling counties because they have pocketed governors to the extent that they do not---"
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