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    "content": "the money that the Government promised to pay them. This totals almost to the same amount of money; Ksh30 billion to Kshs35 billion. Instead of realizing that there is a problem with payment for retired teachers, they went ahead to allocated Kshs35 billion to the CDF. Some of us were involved in the disbursement of the CDF money; what we see in the field these days is wanting. You find that the money is not used in the right way. Some of the money is not going to stalled projects that were started long time ago by some of us. Some Members of Parliament (MPs) go ahead and give out money indiscriminately to friends. Some of them are even trying to turn that money into their re- election pledges so that they can go back again as MPs and continue perpetuating the same ugly scenes and incidents in the National Assembly. Madam Temporary Speaker, this is bad and every other able person who is worth his or her salt should condemn it in the strongest terms possible. It is this House which sits at least, in an extraordinary sitting to lament and come up with solutions. I hope that after everything is said and done, we will flash back and see how much we have lost since the time we came to this Senate; what kind of dangers and problems the National Assembly has caused to the country in the name of punishing the Senate. This is something that we should think about. Everybody should think about it. This is unfortunate because it is coming to us when everybody thinks that we are all in what we call law making Houses. It is ugly in the sense that whereas, we think that we should have been given that money for oversight, they went ahead and did not note that some Vote heads were overshot by billions of shillings. They overshot a vote head with Kshs16 billion and nobody would say that was an overshot. A department like the National Youth Service (NYS) was given money that they did not even ask for. Another example is the Ministry of Health and so on, and so forth. These are the Vote heads that had been discussed in both Houses. We had passed those Vote heads in the hope that nothing else would happen but the National Assembly noted very fast that the Senate had been allocated Kshs1 billion, and that was the first one to be slashed. When that happened, surely, are we talking about people who are serious? They cannot see that there are some Vote heads in Ministries where they passed budgets for amounts of over Kshs30 billion yet they could not see that there was Kshs1 billion that they were denying a sister House which was going to oversight the devolved functions in the name of county assemblies. This is very sad."
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