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    "content": "faithful all over the country contributed to this. Sometimes it is good to do it, but remember that these are institutions which can feel disappointed. When you look at the county allocation for 2015, we have demonstrated that we have money from donors which will go directly to the counties, but after the governors have agreed on the conditions. I know that most of the funds will go to the health sector. I hope that the Kshs1 billion that this House was denied for monitoring will be spent in the health sector. I thank them because I know it will do a better job in terms of monitoring and evaluation. Sometimes we have to sacrifice for some of these things. It is an issue that we have to carry forward as a Senate to ensure that when we come to 2016, we relook at all these issues. For example, how we moved on with the County allocation Bill. We have a formula that we rejected in the House; that needs to be relooked at so that we raise some of these funds. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is important for us, as Senate, whether we have funds or not, to start looking at the funds that go to the county governments. It is also important for us to ensure that while we look at the priorities of the counties, we take note of what is strategic for a county to move on. How shall we ensure that some of these counties can agree to sit together? Three or four counties can sit together so that they look at bigger projects that can benefit the people of those counties. Today, I know that most of the resources will go to pay salaries. I can see that we have given some resources to Kisumu which has many challenges in terms of the staff who were seconded to them. It is something that the Senate has to look at. When we meet the Transition Authority (TA) we need to ask about this issue. We have a crisis of staff that were seconded to the county governments. This is something that the Senate has to look into and ensure that no Kenyan will suffer in terms of securing their job. Governors cannot be employing every time knowing very well that whoever is in a county is also one of their own. This is something that we must deal with because it is raising a lot of anxiety among the people. We have to deal with it. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, sometimes it is good to look at the issue of roads. We have a big challenge both at the national and county governments. It is good to come up with a committee both at the national and the county levels and look at how to ensure that the roads are good. Some of the roads have been destroyed by the water because of the rain. You find that there are gullies on the roads. They no longer look like roads; murram needs to be put on them to make them passable. We are waiting to see the roads that the national Government said they would be built. I hope they will start so that we can see all these roads being done in a manner that every county will be a beneficiary. When you look at the issue of irrigation; I remember that is why we were trying to remove some of the funds when we were mediating, we felt that there is money for irrigation yet for the last two years, we have not seen the benefit of that money. A sum of Kshs12 billion remains unutilized because they just spent Kshs3.05 billion. These are some of the things that the Chairperson of the Mediation Committee who was from the National Assembly did in a very rude way. That is why there are conflicts because he never told the National Assembly what was proposed by the team."
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