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    "content": "concrete jungles. When we travelled to Germany with him, we went to a place where there are apartments and flats, and right in the middle of those apartments, there are trees, a park or a dam. They allow people to construct buildings upon buildings. In South Africa, you will find lawns on apartments because that is what is required. The NEMA certificate issued for Konza City said that it is an animal migration corridor and so it should not be interfered with. What is so different about what is happening in Nairobi? They have failed in their duties and we should tell them. Lastly, we should adopt the method of agreeing as colleagues on things that affect the nation. I am surprised that we have our colleagues in the National Assembly who condemn the Senate for being allocated only Kshs332 million. Those same people will be at the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) on Monday, protesting about Okoa Kenya, which seeks to strengthen devolution and the Senate. That is what is called speaking from both sides of the mouth and we must condemn them. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, people like the Senators who believe that we need to strengthen devolution know that it cannot happen without empowering Senators. We should dissuade the Members of the National Assembly from thinking that if they give Makueni County money, they are giving it to me personally. They should be told that one cannot look at a building and conclude that the money that has been spent on it is commensurate to what appears on the paper. We do not intend to do that because no one has given us authority to be quantity surveyors by just looking at buildings. We need experts. Who told them that a building can be condemned without an expert’s opinion? How can we then do oversight without a fund and getting experts to scrutinize infrastructure? I am preaching to our brothers and sisters to be converted and start understanding because they must wake up from their myopic thinking like Sen. Kagwe said. He said; “thinking in small bits and not thinking beyond your nose” or worse, to cut your nose to spite your face. That is a person who needs prayers. The real prayers that we need to conduct in this country are for leaders who think that they can sabotage the Senate."
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