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    "content": "You saw the case of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs); people have paid themselves and converted themselves into IDPs with state funds. For instance, in the Mau Settlement Scheme, the rich have gone and taken land. There are settlements in Trans Nzoia - if you look at the list which was brought to the Table here; District Officers (DOs) and their relatives have become landless all of a sudden. They are the ones taking land meant for poor people. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when we put up a fund to help the disadvantaged, we must make it very painful for a person with capacity and ability to pretend that they can benefit from that Fund. What they normally do is that as soon as there is a problem, they set up a committee. It is not a committee to do anything. Somebody has come up ingeniously that these days an A.I.E is called Authority to Initiate Eating. This is what they do; they just come together and initiate eating. They have endless meetings while people are suffering. In those meetings, everybody comes and goes home with allowances. They are picked in cars and brought back. When they talk about something, they say; let us postpone this to tomorrow because there is an allowance. We must make it difficult for people to live on the sweat of others because when we vote funds to go and help mitigate disaster, it is meant to help the poor of this country or those who are disadvantaged; the poor of Kibera, Mukuru kwa Njenga and anywhere else in this country. I, therefore, urge Sen. Haji that our Committee must make it very painful for persons in authority and responsibility turning themselves into victims and walking away with funds meant to help the disadvantaged. It is the only way we can do this. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have seen it happen. Sen. Haji has been a Provincial Commissioner (PC) and I know he was a very upright PC because he worked in my region but as soon there is a problem, it is the best time for administrators. It is an early Christmas for them. When there is a problem, you will see how happy they look. All of them get into committee upon committee; everyone has got a writing pad and a pen basically calculating what they will walk away with instead of helping people. This must be brought to an end. That is why in this country – you come from a region where you can also see this – the richest and wealthiest men and women in this country are people who have worked in the Government and not people who have been sweating out there. A person works in Government, sits there, the budget comes and he knows what to freight away. They have now found their ways into offices of governors and they are wreaking havoc. In my county, the ordinary service of a four wheel drive Toyota Prado which you probably own and which these Senators own - if you take it to any garage even if it is Toyota Kenya, to change oil and the oil filter, it cannot be more than Kshs20,000, yet my county is servicing Toyota Prados at Kshs500,000 for an ordinary service. I am sure this is happening elsewhere. You saw a county that set up a website that we set up for free at Kshs2.5 million. Another one installed curtains in some office at a cost amounting to millions. There is a laughable one in Nandi where they just put up a steel beam and a crossbar written “you are now entering Nandi County.” It cannot cost Kshs400,000 yet it cost 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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