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    "content": "It is time to go back to the villages and sit with the old ladies and listen to their stories of how much their lives have been changed since the advent of devolution. I should be facilitated, as a Senator to go back to the county and sit with my people in their tiny, dusty houses and find out their expectations and aspirations. At the advent of counties, we established the County Integrated Development Plan (CIDP), which I consider an emerging challenge. It is time to question what happened. How much has a county government lived up to or deviated from that plan? If they have deviated from the plan, do they deserve a second term? Have we, as Senators, spoken about those issues? It will be interesting to hear the opinion of the Controller of Budget who constitutionally knows well that if a county government deviates from budgetary allocations and how it spends funds, the law does not allow them to release funds to this county. How is it that some of the counties were able to access funds continuously, not once, twice or thrice, yet they deviated from their main budget? We need to call some of these people and listen to what they have to say. We need to find out from the Auditor- General why we are still talking about the audit reports for the Financial Year 2013/2014. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I support this Motion with a sober mind and heavy heart. I know that as much as we have done our part, more still needs to be done. There is still time for us to do our part and live up to the expectation and dreams of the people who queued on 4th March, 2013 to vote for a new dispensation, believing that for the first time money would go to the grassroots; more schools would be built and there would be clean water to drink and access to electricity. We, as the Senate, may not be managers of the funds, but we need to reflect and finalize on some of the things that have bogged us for too long. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, with those many remarks, I beg to support."
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