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    "content": "of roads enough to take us from Nairobi to Rome. I sit in the Committee on Roads and Transport and I know the Roads Annuity Programme collapsed. We as Parliamentarians cannot condone an alternative fact that we built thousands of kilometers when we know that the most that has been done is to advertise some of these roads and even the tenders have not been awarded. If you are going to measure progress based on the number of notices that have been put out, then I think that would be another alternative fact to this nation. The President says every county headquarter has been connected to fiber optic, yet we still hear governors complaining about intermittent access to the Integrated Financial Management System (IFMIS). Someone is not telling us the truth somewhere. That is another alternative fact. The Managed Equipment Scheme which we have been proudly talking about, yes, the results have been good. However, there is opacity around it; that the contract surrounding this particular project cannot be availed even to the institution called Parliament for scrutiny. The greatest legacy that we have gotten from the Jubilee Administration, from my assessment and from my reading of the President’s Speech is corruption. In the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), yes, we shall ride a train in June but we have never fully addressed the weight of corruption surrounding it. Regarding the Managed Equipment Scheme, we will only be settled when we are able to see the contract. With regard to the National Youth Service, the President talks of small challenges. We know that that challenge is as big as billions of shillings in a sack. Madam Temporary Speaker, the things the President did not talk about were the most important. If you look at this Speech, agriculture is mentioned only once in an economy that relies on agriculture. There was no mention of the Galana-Kulalu irrigation scheme of one million acres. There was no mention of the five stadiums. We are being told of initiatives that are being undertaken by counties and yet the Government promised five stadia. There is no mention of national healing, Internally Displaced Persons(IDPs) or issues of restorative justice. A fund was set up two years ago and we have not been told what has happened. In this discussion on the wage bill, what Jubilee must tell us and tell this nation is that in the unlikely event that they are re-elected into office, are they going to carry out massive retrenchment in the Civil Service because this is what the former Cabinet Secretary for Devolution and National Planning, Ms. Anne Waiguru, started. There was a Capacity Assessment and Rationalization of the Public Service (CARPS) Programme. What we must tell the nation is that a re-elected Jubilee Government is a Government that will retrench the Civil Service. I do not think that we need to retrench, we just need to deal with corruption and wastage and duplication in the Public Service. If I was a teacher, and I was once a teacher, this being the last Speech of the Jubilee administration, I would say that; fine, there are things they have done and there are many things they have not done. I would give them 30 out of 100 per cent. Under Matiang’i rules, 30 out of 100 probably would take you to a village polytechnic, it will not renew your term as the President of the Republic of Kenya. The final point on the issue of the Office of the Auditor General; it was at the State House Summit that the Head of State rubbished the efforts of the Auditor-General 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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