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    "content": "that property was bought by the governor or that car belongs to the governor. You do not see devolution touching people. Where is the failure? It is not because the NCIC is not working. It is because the institutions of governance in the country have collapsed. Why can the Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission (EACC) not call Mr. William Ruto and ask him, “Where did you get Kshs18 million to donate in one weekend? They cannot. They are just there watching. Useless people! Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, why is Parliament not oversighting properly? Why is the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) not working? Why is the EACC moribund? Why are we still going to court to buy justice? If you are a poor man, you go to jail but if you are a rich man even when you are taken to custody, the police take you in the evening to sleep in your house, pick you in the morning and take you back to pretend that you are in custody. That is the contradiction that is ruining our country. If the institutions of governance worked, we do not need the NCIC at all or what we are giving them. Every project in the country matters. I do not understand what Sen. Elachi means by peace building projects. People getting clean water, food, security, good roads is an entitlement; it is not to buy peace. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you have seen how scandalous it has been here. In your county, a short road from Isinya to Kiserian is totally impassable. A road from Isinya to Magadi, which supports a very important economic activity is impassable yet we are told they will now do a dual carriage from Kenol through Makutano, Sagana to Nyeri all the way to Meru and another one from Kenol through Maragua, Othaya to Nyeri. Have we all of a sudden discovered huge deposits of gold in those areas? The Maasai that you represent are also entitled to good roads; the people I represent are entitled to good roads. Now they are on a mad rush going everywhere, launching projects that will never be done. It is just a gimmick for elections. They say, “ Hii barabara itajengwa, tumepanga, tumetenga, tuna mipango .” They are everywhere launching water projects worth billions of shillings that will never take off just to hoodwink the gullible public to vote for them. That is the height of obscenity and folly. I hope wananchi are seeing this. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you are an engineer. Show me any dam that costs Kshs10 billion or Kshs16 billion. What is a dam? It is just to block the flow of water in a river, strengthen the embankment, fill the trough, have a spillway and water flows on in its natural course. As an engineer, can that cost Kshs16 billion? Yet, now we hear that they just launched a dam that will cost Kshs16 billion. I am sure you know even that little dam in Kiserian cost close to Kshs4 billion. If I gave you Kshs500 million, you would have constructed that dam. It is just blocking the river and filling up the trough. This is where the problem is in this country. The amount of money that has been and continues to be stolen in this country is enough to give provisions for everybody to achieve social justice. I do not know if you saw yesterday schools with public latrines that are dilapidated and without doors but that is what is shared by teachers and pupils. You can understand the level of public shame of children is much less. You can imagine the headteacher of a school going to a pit latrine, facing the school without a door and undressing to do the big job. These are the problems in this country. They undermine our 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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