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    "content": "sectionalism and all the other -isms you can recall to mind. Somebody, probably this Senate, should carry out an inquiry, which is the easiest construction you can undertake for the small dams, as long as you take care of standards. It is just about the blocking of a flowing mass of water. You now hear of a dam costing Kshs36 billion; engineers like Sen. (Eng.) Mahamud should tell us how this is possible. We are told of a dam costing Kshs18 billion, yet to build it, one just needs to create an embankment on a river. We are talking of dams costing astronomical sums of money. All these are just gravy trains for those who are in authority. This country is crying and it is hurting because of fraudsters. It is the only country where the Government can sell its own land to itself, crooks walk away with billions and Cabinet Secretaries (CSs) come before the Senate Committees and say that it was not them, yet money has been paid. I was shocked to learn that no title deed was passed to the Ministry that was paying the money for the purchase of the land, yet they spent over a billion shillings. What a shame! Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are setting up irrigation schemes to augment food production, but nobody wants to work. Money goes to these irrigations schemes just for it to reach there then come back. That is why the irrigation authority board is being loaded with Principal Secretaries (PSs). First, they do not have time to attend board meetings at all. Who is going to see Kamau Thugge attending irrigation authority meetings every other day? They do not have time and some of them are too arrogant to descend down to attend irrigation meetings. That is why I expected the Government side to bring this Bill and ask you to give them the authority to call for a retreat of this House because this Bill is the lifeline of counties. How then can we take the lifeline of counties and domicile it in Nairobi? It is just a cluster of PSs; and we have the same storyabout the Equalization Fund, where PSs took Kshs600 million and hired helicopters to fly them around the country to see where poverty is!"
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