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    "content": "and then they go and take the kind of action that is vindictive---The Bible says that “revenge will be mine and not yours”. Even if you feel that you are hurt, it is not you to revenge. The Bible is also clear that unless you have given yourself lordship status, where you have moved from being an Hon. Member of Parliament to a “Lord Member of Parliament” so that the Lord giveth and taketh away--- This is because you cannot give the Senate Kshs1 billion and take it away the next day. It does not work like that. It is sad to see individuals who would otherwise be very respectable people in this country; who people originally thought would take higher offices in this country, yet when it comes down to it, you are very disappointed, because you see that they do not have the kind of big minds that one would have imagined in the past. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, that is not really the point that I want to make. The point that I want to make is that it is important for us to utilize the money that has been given effectively. I think that all Senators should demand from the county governments that meetings be held between the executive, the Senate and the county assemblies to discuss and agree on how this money is going to be used, moving forward. This is because, we cannot oversight since we do not know what the money was supposed to be used for in the first place I think the Senate must support county assemblies. Having been around and seen the capacity of some of those county assemblies, it is such that they cannot oversight this expenditure. It is not there. Never mind the Senate; even county assemblies cannot oversight expenditure such as this. Going forward as Senators, we must fight in the next Budget for county assemblies to be given sufficient funding for them to function like able Houses. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I would have liked to see a conditional grant in this document related to Information and Communication Technology (ICT). My Committee has just travelled through China and Thailand. In those countries, they are no longer calling ministries of ICT as such. They call them Ministry of Digital Economy. They have moved on. ICT is just infrastructure. Digital economy is where the central thinking within governments, states and counties is predicated on the fact that technology is the one that is going to leap-frog them from Third World nations to newly developed nations. It is clear that in this country, we have not really taken this matter seriously. Had we done so, we would have gone the way of conditional grants. When we talk to the Treasury itself about this, they have not grasped completely the importance of ICT and ensuring that people are thinking technologically even at the lowest level of our governments. I pray and hope that as we move forward, we will begin to think how we are going not just to follow through every step that the Western world is going through, but at some point, we will leap-frog and move ahead. It is the only way that we can gain respect and dignity as a people, Africans and as Kenyans. The only way we are ever going to get any form of respect is when our economies are growing so much so that no African is drowning in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, going to a place where you are totally unwanted and no Kenyan girls are travelling to a cruel nation called Saudi 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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