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    "content": "In this country, what kills us most is that we dwell so much on destructive competition instead of having constructive competition. That is why we give our electorate false information because we do not want them to elect us based on what we have done but we give them wrong information and at the end of the day, they make a wrong choice during elections. This is a high time that we go down to the people and give them the right information. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to call upon Parliament and the Government to take note of civic education among Kenyans in terms of the role of different offices in the Constitution for the electorate to understand what devolution is all about, the role of each elected Member and the role of each House of Parliament so that we do not have conflict of interest. It is annoying that when you are in a meeting and a colleague who is elected in the county assembly; MCA or governor or a Member of National Assembly who has been given their resources to implement some projects stands up and says I have brought this; so, ask what the Senator has brought. I am coming to do this and this. I am constructing this class and doing this road. When it comes to budgeting, I remember the time we take. It is too long because we want to ensure counties have money. At the end of the day, it is like we have done nothing. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is the high time that Kenyans should be given information and direction to understand the right way to go when making decisions. The level of poverty in this country is not reducing because of wrong leadership and information. With the new Constitution, there is a big gap between the elites; those who went to school in urban centers and those who are in rural areas. Nobody is ready to give the right information. We used to have barazas which were meaningful where leaders would deliver the right information to Kenyans from the national Government. Nowadays, they are meaningless because in those barazas they would dwell on negative issues, talk about other people rather than giving Kenyans the right information that can help them develop. With this kind of attitude, the country cannot develop. Kenyans will not come out of poverty. We, as leaders, should know that Kenyans need good political will for them to forge ahead. The electorate also have a role to play which is to shun the culture of handouts. Gone are the days when people would expect small handouts like Kshs50 from the Members of Parliament (MP). It is what makes Kenyans not to make the right choices. It was not easy to find an MP going back to the constituencies to meet the people who elected them those days when accountability and oversight was not there. We require the oversight fund as a Senate for it to help us do our role that the Constitution gives us. When we do the legislative role and the representative role, we also need to do the oversight role so as to be able to give meaningful leadership to the people who elected us. We need to take another direction in the way we handle the issue of development. We should give priority to meaningful development where resources are not wasted through corruption. With those many remarks, I support the Adjournment Motion."
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