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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, if the Senate is to remain - which I believe is the consensus and view of many of us in this House that the Senate has got a place - we need to give it authority and teeth. The authority of this House is not just about the oversight fund. I would like to make it clear that as a Senator representing Homa Bay County, with or without an oversight fund, it does not stop me from doing my duties as spelt out in the Constitution. It only makes it harder for me to do it, but it does not stop me. The feeling and impression that has been created in the minds of the public by the media and the National Assembly, that Senators will die if they do not get the oversight fund is wrong. The idea to come up with an oversight fund was more of an act of desperation. That fund is giving us a lot of problems. The Kshs332 million that we sought to take us to the end of the financial year is nothing compared to the Kshs400 million that Homa Bay County has set aside for the MCA in form of a ward development fund. We may leave Nairobi feeling that we got something but when we go to the counties, we will realize that we have absolutely nothing. That fund is not going to help us achieve even half of the objectives that we are set up for."
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