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    "content": "privilege of chairing the first impeachment Committee and we delivered. Just in the same way I was given the privilege to sit on the Parliamentary Joint Committee that reviewed matters concerning the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) and we delivered. I have no doubt that I am going to deliver on this one. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, where did the rain start beating us on this thing? It is because we refused to speak in this House and in public to a non-constitutional provision in this country called CDF. There is no room for CDF. CDF is money meant to go to constituencies which exist in counties. All of us know CDF has made a difference. We needed to align it to the Constitution so that the money is given to the governor as a conditional allocation for onward transmission to the constituencies. We did not do this and allowed Members of the National Assemblyto engage a gear of competition. I have been talking to my senior here, Sen. Obure, whom I have described and he tells me how we wish we had started from there. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is because of this that MPs started competing with governors, and Women Representatives wanted to join. I do not know what they did to the President. They were also given money. If you ask them what they are using the money for, you hear stories which you do not want to write in your autobiography if you were one such a leader. This brings me to the point of oversight. I want Members to remember that even the County Public Accounts and Investments Committee was never in the Standing Orders of this House. We had to deliberately create it. Somebody at the beginning never wanted this Senate – in spite of the provisions of Article 96 (3) – to oversight monies going to the counties. So, I support this Fund not because it is CDF. In fact, if I knew or if somebody told me that you want to give me some money to go and start building classrooms, or health centres in Kakamega County, I would refuse because it is a county of two million people, 12 constituencies, 60 wards and 289 sub-locations. What amount of money can you give me that can make me do what the governor is supposed to do? We would like this little fund to enable the Senator to follow projects and programmes in the county real-time. What do I mean? I mean I look into the future. I see a future, with all due respect to the Jubilee Government, where after the next election we in the opposition, CORD, shall provide this country with a President. It could be that that President will be Baba. It could be that that President will be His Excellency Kalonzo Musyoka. It could very well be that that President will be Moses Masika Wetangula. I understand when the man I admire, Sen. Kiraitu, mocks me. So was Donald Trump mocked by the honchos of not just the Democratic Party, but even from the Republican Party."
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