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    "content": "institutions of governance? We have your own case of Murang’a County where a governor spends Kshs7 million advertising his imagined success and nobody can question him. What has happened to institutions of governance in our country? A governor goes to buy a wheelbarrow at an exaggerated price of 2.752 per cent of the ordinary off-shelf price and nobody has been found culpable to date. I have a case in my county where a road from one point to another is given as a contract to different contractors and paid for. This is information in public the domain. I have a case in my county where a parcel of land in Bungoma County costing an average of Kshs30 million was bought by the governor at Kshs269 million and nobody asks questions. These are public funds. The other day I said Governor (Dr.) Evans Kidero of Nairobi County may have his own failings, but when you see him on the road, there is one car ahead of him and then his car. If you go to my county, the governor is moving around with 20 Prados on the road, running like the Wild West; the mafia, knocking off people, riding over women’s tomatoes by the roadside and doing all manner of things with hoodlums wearing dark glasses with hands outside the car, waving off everybody as they come. This is not the devolution we fought for. We fought for devolution to change people’s lives. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have gone through every part of my county and I ask a question - this county has now received an average of Kshs26 billion and they collect revenue of an average of Kshs2 billion per annum – is there any youth group that has been given a small contract of just Kshs3 million to stand up? There was none. I asked if there was any women group that has received any support of just about Kshs3 million and there was none. Where is this money? Every time you see the governors - I am told in Meru County, there was a session where each governor was describing his imagined success of his county - it is more fictitious than even great film writers; more fictitious than James Bond’s movies. One even said that since he became a governor, he has bought so many cars. How can that be development? How can buying cars change people’s lives in any county and who uses those cars? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have a case in my county where a Prado that you can take to a garage and do an ordinary service of changing oil, filter and drive out at Kshs17,000, costs Kshs500,000 for that service. This is blatant theft and not even fraud. I want to ask my brothers across the House what is happening in the institutions of governance in the country. I am told when the Auditor-General’s group goes to the governor, there is a special briefcase kept there waiting. When the Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission (EACC) people go to the governor’s office for investigations, there is another separate briefcase waiting. If it is Criminal Investigations Department (CID) officers, there is a third briefcase waiting. If you have that kind of money, you can keep as many as 10 briefcases. How are we going to protect the country? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I sometimes feel very disturbed when a very noble issue like the small fund that would enable a Senator go to Kericho County and spend on seminars to tell people you have come in recently, looked at the records and our account 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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