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    "content": "overshot. When they were overshooting the Vote heads, they never had time to think about down shooting or even erasing us from the memory of what we had already discussed yet we only required Kshs1 billion to oversee the projects that the money you are allocating to the NYS will be used for. So, what kind of logic would you say we are really here for, if we cannot oversee, yet that is our role? Our role is entrenched in the Constitution. If we cannot oversee what the counties are doing including the money that we are passing in the National Assembly, then what are we here for? That is a clear indication that the National Assembly is wishing us bad luck. It is as if they are imagining that we should not even have been there after all. We are here because we are here. That is what we used to be told one time by our Vice Chancellor, Dr. Josephat Karanja of the University of Nairobi then. He would say that you are here because you are here because that was the case of the university students. So, for us, we must state our priorities right. That is what we are trying to do here. The Kshs1 billion was removed from the Senate and we are saying that we are going to establish a Select Committee, is it going to work backwards so that we can get this money or are we going to make sure that the Select Committee is so powerful so that it can refund arrears? Are they going to make sure that whatever else that is remaining is left intact, because we have got about one year to go of active politics? The Members of the National Assembly want to make sure that they are alive to politics and come 2017, they will be asking what the Senators have done in the constituencies and the county. Of course, they know, we will not have much to say. Madam Temporary Speaker, therefore, we are suffering because we have to be seen to be abreast with everybody else. When there is some harambee money to be raised, you have to struggle and raise as much as what the MP is raising, whereas the MPs are using the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) to upgrade themselves whereas we have no money to do that. We expect that the Select Committee, as soon as possible, even if it means tomorrow, will come up with a solution because without that, we are done. Let the MPs see that there is some urgent need like the employment of teachers. They only allocated Kshs2 billion for hiring of 5,000 teachers whereas they know very well that they are using the money that they have to come up with the infrastructure, yet there are no teachers to teach. We even have the retired teachers who are now crying and some of them are dead. The Government owes them Kshs30 billion and nobody is talking about them. So, when shall we have sanity in the House and for Kenyans to know the truth? Let us not behave like that animal, which I will not mention here which did not allow the goat to eat grass. I will not mention the animal but that is bad for any other House to imagine that we do not exist, we do not say anything and we are not intelligent. Surely, can they not see the kind of debates that originate from this House? The debates and Motions from this House are serious businesses. If by the number which they claim they are, they will not see us go through, then, that is why we can talk about that animal which did not allow the goat to eat grass? Time will tell when the institutions crumble. People will blame us but we would not have learnt from the past 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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