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    "content": "collected for the last three years is more than Kshs2 trillion. If you put together Kshs1 trillion which is just a drop in the ocean from the national Government, yet we have left county governments with their local revenue which nobody questions or does anything and they have a leeway to do anything with this money--- No county has come out clearly to say that my money from the national Government will be specifically for development. All we have seen is county governments still incurring debt. This is something that the Senate should be very worried about. We need to ask ourselves, if you are going to be a governor, will you take over a county that is on its knees with debts amounting to Kshs10 billion or Kshs14 billion? These are the issues that we should raise. We also thank the President for Kshs87 billion for the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF). I was shocked and thought that Kenya is a rich country. If we have a Kshs1 trillion pumped into counties and we have Kshs87 billion in CDF, why do we not see development in counties?We are crying and still seeing children studying under trees with no classrooms.There is something wrong with us, as leaders, who have been given the responsibility to run these counties. We must be very serious.When we have a governor who decides to play public relations, buy choppers and bring hooligans to start their own campaigns, something must be wrong. That is a security threat.We must be very worried when we see Nairobi City County askaris on television killing people in daylight and it is documented. Anyone who is vying for a political seat should ask himself or herself if we will really have a free and fair election, or people will just use goons to destroy your meeting, kill people and have you blamed. We must stop it. This Senate must take the lead to ensure that the hooligans that governors have created and those askaris are stopped. We must bring a petition to this Senate to determine who trains these askaris and where they are trained because they handle business people the wrong way and yet you expect revenue. How will we have a conducive environment to collect revenue when we harass the small business people on the streets? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as we look at the President’s Address, these are some of the issues that we must raise as we move to the next level. Before we do the Division of Revenue Bill in this House, we must ensure that we raise very critical questions to county governments. Why are they in debt? It is time Senators had the right to decide that this money will not go to your county until a few things have been done. I would wish to see that. The President also talked about investing and improving the lives of Kenyans.He talked about infrastructure and mining and we have just passed the mediation Bill on mining. I hope that we can now move to the next level and ensure communities with natural resources are given the opportunity to, first of all, just get that responsibility of being part of the projects that are on their grounds. We have coal in Kitui and Mwatate. It has been there for many years. We now want to see these communities benefiting. We have the Information Communication Technology (ICT) projects; we want young people to be innovative in bringing up projects, solutions and applications that can be used for farmers and any other sector that we have. We have different solutions in applications that can transform and give 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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