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    "content": "possible to make sure that Kenyans benefit from the money lying in the account. Who knows what is happening to the money? Madam Temporary Speaker, we have an institution that should take care of this. It is very important for us to make sure that we save the lives of our people. For example, in northern Kenya, most of the people who used to have over a thousand animals are poor today. They do not even have one chick. This is a right that is enshrined in the Constitution. They need to be protected and their properties as well. There are also funds under the governors’ docket. Governors have budgets to take care of famine and drought but that money is not utilised properly. Nobody even knows how that money is used. Why can the monies not go to the NDMA account instead of going to the governors so that they are properly utilized with proper structures in place to make sure that we help our people? There are millions of shillings being used by the governors yet nobody knows how they are being spent. There is a lot of mismanagement and misappropriation of the budget under the governor’s office. Again, governors who are chairs of such boards should make sure that they harmonize the drought management kitty so as to make sure that every institution does what it is required to do. However, I do not think governors have ever sat in meetings to make sure that the institutions within counties are utilizing the money as required by law. Madam Temporary Speaker, I do not want to take much time. However, this country faces challenges and especially those areas stricken by drought. In Isiolo where I come from, there are people who cannot take their kids to school today because their animals have died. Some of these animals are skeletons and cannot even be taken to the market. We need to have proper strategies in place to make sure that our people are taken care of. Unless we do that, then I do not see why we should be calling ourselves leaders. We have really failed in our responsibility to make sure that we protect the rights of our people in this country. With those many remarks, I will stop there and allow Sen. (Eng.) Hargura to second me on this particular Motion. I thank you."
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