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    "content": "for your actions. If you meet Members of the National Assembly right now, everybody is running away from the very decision they made in the House. Each of our Members of the National Assembly is telling us “you know, we supported the Senate, we do not know what happened.” Who will explain what happened other than themselves? It is important to note that when they made the decision to take away Kshs1 billion, they were focused on their individual Senator. They had their Senators in mind; they were not looking at the Senate as an institution. Those coming from Nandi had Sen. Sang, Sen. Wetangula for those coming from Bungoma County and Sen. Okong’o for those coming Nyamira County and so on. We ask them to be honourable enough and take responsibility for their actions. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when they messed up the vetting process of Dr. Monica Juma, you meet all Members of the National Assembly and they are saying that they were not the ones responsible. We know that this was a bipartisan decision by Members of the National Assembly. It had nothing to do with the Jubilee coalition or the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD). All of them sat down and agreed. When the consequences are now being visited on them, they are running away and starting to blame one another. I do not know who they want to blame. They must be honourable enough and be accountable for the decisions that they made. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the corruption that we have witnessed within the budgeting process has led to monies within the national budget being allocated to sectors that do not need those huge amounts of resources while denying the actual and critical sectors in this country the resources they need. I come from an agricultural sector. If you look at the budget that was allocated to it, it is very meager. It was only allocated Kshs1.5 billion. The money that was allocated to buy maize from farmers in the last financial year was not adequate. We faced challenges within our regions. They allocated a paltry Kshs3.5 billion yet they went on to allocate huge amounts of resources on many sectors that are already devolved or others of national priority and critical importance to this country. Now, it is emerging that the budgeting process was marred with a lot of deal cutting and bribery. We call upon the National Assembly to recognise that this is an honourable House. Kenyans have a lot of hope in the National Assembly to steer this country towards prosperity but the kind of leaders and the kind of engagement the Members of the National Assembly are engaged in will take this country down the drain. Therefore, I call upon the Senate, that for a very long time, we have been the sober House and we intend to remain so but we must think and put our act together. The Senate is being undermined from all corners and if we are not careful, we will go home five years down the line and the legacy that we will leave behind is that we presided over and watched the process of winding up of the Senate without taking concrete actions. If it means constitutional amendment, let us sit down and look at it. I appreciate the attempts by the Members of the CORD Coalition to bring up the"
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