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    "content": "has a subcommittee which must be involved in the process. When this equipment is taken to the counties, it will be the responsibility of the governors whom we will point a finger at if they do not work properly. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we must look into the issue of manpower to run the equipment. We need to get officers trained properly so as to avert the issues of misdiagnosis that we have had before. We have had injections done on patients by persons who were not qualified. These are issues that we must canvass. As Committees, we have picked up some of these issues. The Committee on Labour and Social Welfare has picked up the issue of human resource which has been raised by Sen. Elachi. We know that with the exit of TA, there will definitely be a gap. We need to fast track this matter. We, as the Senate, have generally had issues with the funding of our committees. The issue of per capita funding is not working for our committees. We had planned meetings to go and deal with emerging issues, but we could not because we do not have the budgetary allocation. We are suffering. We are doing a disservice to this country when we do not get proper reports. We cannot produce such reports in Nairobi. We may need to visit the affected counties to do proper audit. In the last two weeks, we have tried to set up meetings of the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare, but it was impossible due to lack of money. We need to petition the PSC to give us adequate budgetary allocation. This is because most of the work that we do in this House is not prosecuted in the Plenary; it is done in the committees. When committees are not facilitated to do their work, they are blamed for not fulfilling their mandate. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we complain everyday that random hiring is being done. In fact, currently as we are dealing with the issue of pension in the county governments. You will discover that we still do not have proper records on the duties of the employees; which employees are on contract and who are permanent and pensionable. That can only be done when we do a proper human resource audit and ensure that systems are implemented. I agree with the Committee on the issue of the IEBC; that what they are doing is not enough. If they plan to register the 8 million people they are targeting, more needs to be done. If you look at the way the exercise is being conducted now, you will find that every ward has been awarded two BVR machines. Some wards are as big as a constituency. You cannot put one station to serve the whole ward and expect to reach the target with that kind of resource. The officers are also stationed there without seats or tents. They sit in the sun yet they are expected to work and deliver results. We must look at the budgetary allocation of IEBC. We must know how the money is allocated to them and spent so that we get value. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am also passionate about the issue of cash transfer programme and this was canvassed at the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare. This is the money that is allocated to the vulnerable groups in the community who include women, orphans, children and people with living with disabilities. They have been allocated about Kshs17 billion. The Senator for Kitui County has raised this issue with us previously. We asked the Ministry to provide us with data of the transfer monies The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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