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    "content": "so that we find meaning of realignment and what the drafters of this Constitution intended. If this Constitution intended a provincial administrator to be called a regional coordinator, they would have said so. If we intended a DC to be called a sub-county administrator, we would have said so. But now when you go to one county, every constituency is a district. So, you have many piles and piles of administrators. Just take time and look at the budget, there is no money provided for those fellows. So, they are now leaving on corrupt practices and they have to conspire with the police to mount illegal roadblocks every day to collect money and share with them. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we saw a case in Mandera where a person is given a fuel voucher for 10 litres and he has to fuel in Garissa from Mandera. You need more than 200 litres to travel from Mandera to Garissa but the Government only gives a voucher for 10 litres to go to Garissa, fuel the car and go back to Mandera to work. That is how unreasonable the system has become and we are busy crying that the public wage bill is heavy and that Members of Parliament (MPs) are overpaid. Those are the people who are guzzling public funds for doing nothing. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, like I have said repeatedly, every new Constitution must be subjected to an audit. Every new Constitution must be looked at as what you doctors call “its efficacy”. We need to know what works and what does not. We need to ask ourselves whether devolution is working the way we intended it to be. Did we devolve to have governors buying seats costing Kshs3 million to sit on at funerals? We have just been hearing a petition where a county government bought a pipette worth Kshs25 that is used in Artificial Insemination (AI) at Kshs800. A packet of those pipettes that cost Kshs800 were bought at Kshs75,000. Obviously, this is just looting and theft of public funds. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in trying to realign this administration, we need to seriously start looking at the great dream of the people of Kenya which is devolution and how we can make it work. You can see the greed by the national Government where it is even attempting to take away hospitals from counties instead of asking how they can make medical services work. The Constitution says that the national Government is responsible for referral hospitals. Why can they not build more referral hospitals countrywide? I told you that in the sunset years of Hon. Kibaki as the President, we passed in Cabinet the building of 23 referral facilities in the country scattered all over to serve the people. The national Government would then have an opportunity to move doctors from Mombasa to Pokot, from Pokot to Nyeri, from Nyeri to Kisumu and so on. They are just busy focusing singularly on only one thing; in each undertaking, how much money is there for corruption. That is all they are doing, nothing else. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in the family, when your son sees you dressed badly every day, he thinks that is the manner of dressing. So, he also starts dressing like you. When your son sees you eating greedily on the dinner table, he thinks that is how people live. So, he starts also doing the same. Those governors are seeing the greed being exhibited at the national level and they think that is how public servants should live. If in Nairobi in one stroke on Standard Gauge Railway, they steal Kshs100 billion, if on Eurobond, they steal Kshs100 billion, then what will stop the governor? How do you 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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