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    "content": "National Assembly their duties. We all know what the Senate has gone through and what Kenyans are experiencing today. Madam Temporary Speaker, we need to tackle the issue of amending the Constitution head on. The Senate proposes to adopt the suggestions that came from the previous committee on the Draft Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill, 2015 to be done through popular initiative. I am aware that there has been frustration when things do not move. The CORD Coalition has come up with their initiative which they called Okoa Kenya Initiative. I also heard that there is also another Bill in the National Assembly. All in all, this Motion proposes to give the nine Senators the hard task of collecting views and compiling them according to Article 257 of the Constitution so as to ensure that we anchor and strengthen devolution. Those of us who sit in the County Public Accounts and Investments Committee (CPAIC) witness shocking incidences of how money has been spent in the counties. There are no stringent regulations on how Members of the County Assemblies (MCAs) and county governments spend money. For instance, we had an incident where a county assembly approved money to pay for their car loans and mortgages. They purported to have had 32 sittings on that matter in a month yet that is a function of the County Assembly Service Board. Each MCA ended up getting Kshs256,000 per month in pretence to acquire money to clear their loans and mortgages. There are also other incidences that would shock us if they were revealed. Madam Temporary Speaker, the Senate has witnessed the misuse of public funds and powers by some speakers of county assemblies. Today we even witnessed a Speaker who went to demolish the perimeter wall around the county assembly because he is not in agreement with the county assembly. The Speaker even had the audacity to say that there are some Kenyans who are above the law, like him. If a county assembly Speaker can refer to himself as being above the law and the governor is senior to him, what then happens to the Constitution that Kenyans fought for many years leading to the promulgation of the Constitution on 27th August, 2010 at exactly 10.27a.m? When the former President lifted up the new Constitution, we all jubilated on that day. Little did we know that we were jumping from the frying pan to the fire. We must fight and ensure that the fire does not burn the nation. We need to strengthen the Constitution."
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