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"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, while tweeting, I said that it is so unfortunate that she is being punished for disallowing dirty deals from being perpetuated in her office. That is the House where they completed altered the budget-making process. I do not want to repeat what the Senator for Bungoma and Senate Minority Leader said. However, it is true the Committee on Budget and Appropriations in the National Assembly, and we learnt from the media, that it took none other than His Excellency the President to summon them to State House and told them to remove that allocation. Every time I look at our President, I am starting to think that he is not the same President who made his first speech in Kasarani where I was present. He has started seeing that something is wrong in his own platoon of Members of Parliament and, probably, the Executive. Mr. Speaker, Sir, those of us who are fighting will be remembered as the ones who truly defended the presidency of Uhuru Kenyatta. If these are the guys Uhuru hopes to go to elections with and face Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. or Sen. Hassan Omar Hassan, then we will defeat Jubilee as early as 9.00 a.m. to 10.00 a.m. During our budget policy statement here, we were not doing it arbitrarily, figures and facts were presented. We were told that Kshs6.5 billion which Sen. Mutula Kilonzo and I, contested, was meant for the National Youth Service (NYS). Clandestinely, after mediation, hon. Mutava Musyimi, the “wrong” reverend according to Jacob Luseno, has changed it from Kshs6.5 billion to Kshs25 billion. We are not idiots. We are not fools. This is money meant to construct a stadium. Who does not know that there is a Ministry responsible for sports? What has that poor Somali, the Cabinet Secretary in charge of sports done wrong? Has he failed the Government so that they should take away the money meant for his ministry to give to one, Anne Waiguru? If they really wanted money to build a stadium, let the right officer do so. We are not against it. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the money is supposed to do dams, drill boreholes and construct roads. All these are devolved functions. Why are billions being allocated for devolved functions when county governments are there? We call upon the President to think hard and long. He should realize that he is walking the wrong path. You will find that Kshs59 billion in this Budget has been given to health. Who does not know that health is one of the most problematic departments being presided over by governors? Why? They do not have enough resources. In a fully devolved function like health, they have held Kshs59 billion at the top. What do they want this money to do? If that is the reason Macharia was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary for Health, then time has come when the new look National Assembly and the current Senate should demand that a devolved function like health and water should not have a substantive Cabinet Secretary. If anything, they should all be under one Cabinet Secretary in charge of the department on devolved functions. I am saying this knowing that my younger brother, hon. Wamalwa was one of those people who were lucky and was appointed. With all due respect to hon. Eugene Wamalwa, I have nothing against him, but, Chair, allow me to say it in Kiswahili language. “ Hiyo ni kazi ya karani, endelea na kazi ya karani, you are on the wrong track. You will one day look for us so that we can show you why Michael Kijana Wamalwa--- 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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