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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I welcome the Busia delegation to the Senate, but it looks as if they have left. All the same, they are welcome to the Senate. I support the speech by the President in the State of the Nation Address on the 2nd of May, 2018. I want to pick out a few of the issues that were in that speech that should be of concern to the Senate. One of the things the President raised that was actually a sub- title was the success of devolution. He pointed out the amount sent to the counties and how it has been increasing from year 2014 to date. In our role as Senate in safeguarding, protecting and oversighting counties and their governments, it would be important that we hasten our focus more on that role. This is more so, now that we know we have the support of the Executive. In the same breadth, we also ask the President that having prioritised devolution and showed his support for it, to also facilitate Senators to perform that role to ensure that devolution works properly. In the Big Four Agenda that the President also focused on, there are areas in that agenda that should also be a focus of the Senate. For example, access to affordable and universal health care. Health being a fully devolved function of counties, we would expect that Senate is properly facilitated to deal with the oversight on health so that we achieve this for the President and the executive. The other issues of agriculture, food security and environment should be taken as of concern by the Senate. On misuse of public resources, this is where we come in as the Senate in holding the counties to account for the funds that we authorise to be allocated to them. Diverting public resources to personal use should be discouraged. It is a matter that this Senate should take seriously, especially, through the County Public Accounts and Investments Committee (CPAIC). I beg to support."
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