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    "content": "(DANIDA). The risk we face is that if we rely on a single or two development partners, with time they metamorphose from being just development partners to making demands even on governance and there is evidence of this. We all remember what happened in the 1990s with the Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) when the World Bank and the IMF gave serious conditions to this country especially on the wage bill as a condition to lend development funds to this nation. The cut on the wage bill meant that we reduce our workforce. Once our workforce reduced, the argument changed; that the rate of unemployment is too high and that we are a poor country and so we do not qualify for development funds. It will be wise to widen the bracket and bring on board more development partners to allay those fears. There has been an ongoing discussion in our forum as Senators on a circular that is said to have emanated from the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) on allocation of Kshs150 million for the construction of the speakers’ houses or residences across this country. Once that matter comes to the Floor of this House, it is a matter that this Senate needs to take a voice and position on because I wonder what kind of a speaker’s house would be constructed with Kshs150 million in Kitui County. That money would rather be allocated to other uses that would have a direct impact on the residents of our respective counties. Thank you Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I support."
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