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    "content": "The 2014 activities will shock this country. I will not be surprised if 70 per cent of governors go to jail in the long-term. I will tell you why. Just this week, I discovered two very strange projects that have been introduced in the last few months. The first one, the county government decided to set up a museum. That museum would include a snake park. He commissioned young men to go and look for live snakes in exchange for money. Therefore, there were categories of snakes, for example, if you catch the puffadder, you get Kshs5,000. If you catch a cobra, you get Kshs10,000. First and foremost, it is criminal because you cannot handle wildlife unless you are part of the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS). You also must be a trained snake handler and must also be injected with anti-snake drug in the event of an accident. Finally, this is an abuse of our young people. Millions of money has gone into that project, but I do not know how many snakes have been caught. These are some of the things that will shock this country. If Kenya thought the carcinogenic wheelbarrow was hilarious enough, then they have not heard from Tharaka-Nithi. Two weeks ago, the County Government of Tharaka-Nithi spent millions of money to buy fish fingerlings and introduced them into 11 rivers in Tharaka- Nithi. I went there and asked two questions; how can the Auditor-General establish that one million fingerlings have been introduced in 11 rivers in Tharaka-Nithi. It is impossible to account. The other issue is that fish swims and it will not discover the boundary between Tharaka-Nithi and Meru County. In fact, the beneficiary of that fish is likely to be the Senator for that county because fish swims upstream. It is likely that the fingerlings which were put in the rivers of Tharaka-Nithi two weeks ago, are already in Meru County yet they were bought using the resources of Tharaka-Nithi County defeating the whole purpose of allocation of revenue per county. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, without much ado, I would like to say that what we are seeing is a charade. The only institution that would breathe sanity in the counties is the Senate. The governors who are crying now, have not seen anything yet. We will use every method to catch all the thieves of county money whether small or big, powerful or weak and fat or thin thieves. We cannot be intimidated by people who think that by saying that Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale and Sen. Murungi, wants to be a governor, then the Senate should keep quiet and watch armed robbers depriving our counties of their livelihoods. With those few remarks, I support and laud the Speaker for standing firm in defence of this Senate."
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