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    "content": "funds to upgrade their livestock and even process livestock products. In my county, a meat processing plant was built in a place called Nasuguta where previous Governments spent over Kshs120 million. Unfortunately, I am told that they are currently downgrading it to a mere slaughterhouse. This is why this Committee has proposed that the Treasury allocates more money to counties that have animal products and also depend on animals. Some of them can come up with meat processing plants in order to utilize the milk, hides and skins. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in the next page, this Motion indicates that the Judiciary is given a lot of money. However, sometimes because of their inability to absorb for development, the money is not spent. It is important that we also mention that the national Government informs the Treasury to engage particularly the technical staff in counties. Such staff includes the county works officers, architects, engineers and so on, rather than purport to be giving tenders in the headquarters in Nairobi County for a whole building to be constructed in Mandera, Lamu or my county of West Pokot. Today when I talk to my former colleagues in the Ministry of Public Works, I was happy to know that for the first time now, some of the ministries that previously pretended to be working and thought that they could give some of these tenders to themselves have now gone back. That is why we now have a new Department called Public Works. Some people wanted to kill it. Unfortunately, we cannot kill a Ministry that will keep our nation united. We can run away from it, but we will come back to them. Many people need to be registered by the IEBC. I propose that the National Treasury allocates more money to the IEBC to register eight million new voters. There is no politics here. It is not a matter for the CORD or Jubilee coalition. We must give Kenyans an opportunity to exercise their right to vote, particularly in the coming elections. In my county, I have over 100,000 Kenyans who have not been registered as voters. This is a huge number, but they do not have identification cards. We need to fast tract issuance of these cards so that our people register in large numbers as voters. We ask county Governments whose people have not been registered, to work together with the national Government. They should avail some of the vehicles they use at night to do other things to IEBC. The vehicles can be used to move staff and register people, particularly pastoralists who are always on the move. This committee has proposed that the leasing of motor vehicles by the police and housing project be domicile under the National Police Service (NPS). This is true so that it becomes easier to monitor. We need to ask the national Government how much we have been spending on hiring of vehicles. The Government stopped buying vehicles one year ago. We should do cost-benefit analysis and see how much we are saving as a country. In some counties, some of the Admiration Police vehicles, particularly the areas that used to be hit most by cattle rustlers before, are lying idle in the parking yards. The vehicles are now escorting the governors everywhere, making strange noises in the name of sirens. Therefore, we need to know how we are benefiting from this. Yes, it is true that they need to be increased, but the policy of managing these vehicles is very key. In the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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