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    "content": "Ksh27 million; just a steel beam like a rail rod and a cross bar written “you are now entering Nandi County; Kshs27 million gone. Everywhere you go you see; for example, “you are now entering Murang’a County” and so on. It is all theft. You do not have to put up those signs for people to know. We are a unitary state. We do not need those signs that you are now entering Garissa; Garissa is part of Kenya. You do not need those signs anywhere. They are being used to steal. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in addition, if you go to a county you will see billboards everywhere with a portrait of a governor using public funds; money that would help poor people. We must fight this. We can talk until the chickens come home to roost. We want to see that even the little money that we are painstakingly fighting with the national Government to take to the counties, is put to good use, not to line the pockets of people. For example, a person who, before devolution took effect, could not give Kshs5,000 in a Harambee is now giving a million shillings every weekend. Where do they get this money? When you look at them, the Intelligence Quotient (IQ) is less than that of an ordinary Kenyan. It is disaster upon disaster. I want to say that the seed money for setting up disaster preparedness in the counties - Sen. Yusuf Haji can do this as well- should be given from the national Budget as a conditional grant to every county, so that each county has a mechanism and a system of disaster preparedness, to be called upon any time to respond. There are some disasters in some counties that are just unhygienic. The jiggers in your own county and many other places, you go there and find children walking with their legs feeble. That is negligence and now it has become a disaster. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other day we were short of declaring alcohol abuse a national disaster. How do we control reckless consumption of alcohol that has rendered people helpless? This has made even procreation difficult in certain parts of this country because men have drunk themselves silly, they cannot even sleep with their wives. We were told in the last Parliament by a distinguished lady from Nyeri that in her area, when a man comes home in the evening and the wife says, “darling welcome”, he runs under the bed until morning, drunk and helpless. That is a disaster that we need to address. Very soon we should declare land grabbing a disaster. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to leave room for others to contribute. This Bill is excellent and I think our Committee needs to do a little more. In fact, I was going to ask the distinguished Chair of the Committee that before we get to the Committee Stage, we could even have a kamukunji and get input from many Members. You can see how few we are this afternoon. We are not setting up a County Disaster Management Authority as an eating avenue for any governor. We are setting up an Authority to help mitigate, prevent and assist victims of disaster. I beg to support."
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