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    "content": "We requested to audit the E-jiji Pay, Jambo pay and the digitization of the revenue streams. I am sad to note that as much as I asked for this, many months ago, within the same period, the Nairobi City County has collected a billion less than it did under the previous county government. How is it that we can fashion ourselves as a House that holds true fidelity to our mandate in the Constitution, if we are unable to find the proper shape in which to be flexible, dynamic and not to be rigid in different ways of doing things? I know that this is a House of precedence and tradition. Let us hold true fidelity to our cause by being flexible enough to support the county governments and by bringing the kind of reports we do up to speed. The CPAIC needs to give us a proposal on how we will do oversight, not in a retroactive manner looking back but how each Senator can work with the office of the Auditor-General, the Controller of Budget and the Accountamt-General at the National Treasury, every month so that we can have real-time oversight because that is what the people want. We hope to bring monitoring and evaluation guidelines because Kshs550 million was already appropriated for all the Senators. That money should allow Senators to set up processes through which we can play the oversight role in real time. One of the intentions I have, and probably other Senators might be able to, because I have already started working on it without the fund, is how you create a GPS-driven public portal. If you are from Kilimani, Kasarani or Kware wards, based on the programme based budget, you can go online to see that the governor had said that he is doing this road or this ECD Center and it is at 30 percent. As a citizen of Nairobi, you should be able to comment and say: “Actually, this is the photo, there is no project,” or “Actually, the project is very good, it is going on well.” The point I am trying to make is that we can be creative in how this role is played by Senators, to ensure that their work is seen and felt on the ground and that people see you as direct channels to keep the governors to check. Madam Temporary Speaker, yesterday and today we discussed the Cash Disbursement Schedule. I am happy that as the second Senator of Nairobi City County in my first year I have got Ksh15.8 billion. This is the second one because we did the last cash disbursement. However, I also feel disheartened because many of our citizens in this county and across the country, cannot feel the value of that money because of what is happening on the ground. Madam Temporary Speaker, with Ksh15.8 billion from the Senate and another Ksh15 billion, because the current budget for Nairobi City County is Ksh32 billion, I am surprised why - and today we went to Pumwani Maternity Hospital with Senators and saw how babies are being put in polythene bags and boxes when they pass on. This afternoon we have seen the Governor say he has donated cooling equipment. Nairobians do not want donations. We are passing budgets here. Nairobians are paying taxes. It is not about your donations and philanthropy, especially when you have a kitty. If you see a Senator donating may be, because Senators do not have any fund--- MCAs have something coming. The Member of Parliament has the CDF, the Women Representative has Kshs7 million per constituency and the Governor has Ksh32 billion. So, why would you want to donate to address that issue? We need to change our 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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