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    "content": "Sen. Wetangula, wherever he may be, that this is the day that he does not perform his responsibility as a principal of CORD or as the Senate Minority Leader. This is the day he should perform his responsibility on behalf of the people of Bungoma who are watching us right now and waiting to hear what their Senator will say about the disbursement to the county and what message he has to his governor and county government on how that money is to be used. There are days that we come here with Motions that are partisan or Bills that only have sectarian interests, perhaps, and have to lobby people everybody to convince them that our regions require those particular Bills. However, today, we are here on behalf of our counties, individually and also as a whole. This is the time that leadership is shown. I cannot fault the Majority Leader for leading in the process of ensuring that we come here today. Standing Order No.29 provides that the Majority or the Minority Leaders, with the support of at least 15 Senators can call for a Special Sitting. This is not the first time we are having a Special Sitting. The last time we had the Security Laws and the Minority Leader, without consulting me or the Majority Leader, called us here with the support of 15 Senators who were purely CORD Senators. However, we came here, debated and came to a conclusion on the Security Laws. I thank Sen. (Dr.) Machage, Sen. Mwakulegwa and Sen. Godliver Omondi. They have come here in their responsibility as Senators for their counties. When the chips are down, one will have to explain themselves as a Senator of their county. Our counties are waiting for resources to be devolved and disbursement done so that services can be rendered to our people. Having said that, I have a message for our counties; Elgeyo-Marakwet started with Kshs2.8 billion being allocated to that county. Now we have reached Kshs3.5 billion. There has been a complaint when I go to the county that the governor says that most of the money goes to recurrent expenditure. When I ask what the recurrent expenditure is, they say they are hiring more people and paying salaries which is amounting to over Kshs1 billion. I say that is okay if the salaries are for the workers working in Elgeyo-Marakwet County. However, 80 percent of those workers supposedly, are residents of Elgeyo-Marakwet born, brought up and voting in Elgeyo-Marakwet. However, there is a fallacy to this argument. For the past few months, I visited five wards. Sometimes, I just go for a public baraza to listen to the concerns of the"
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