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"content": "shule ya chekechea na kuweka picha yake mlangoni. Kuliko kufanya watoto waje, wanatoroka. Umuhimu wa hizo picha zote ni nini? Bw. Spika wa Muda, nitamaliza hapo ili wenzangu waweze kuongea. Sen. Mariam ananieleza kuwa wakati uko karibu kuisha. Kwa hivyo, nitaachia hapo ili wenzangu waweze kuongea. Asante sana."
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"content": " Sen. Mariam Sheikh Omar."
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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. I also support this report from the Standing Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations concerning a Petition on the branding of public projects with images of governors and Members of County Assemblies (MCAs) and branding of county vehicles. This issue of branding of the project is personalizing the public resources. The prayer of the petition is the amendment of the County Governments Act which talks about not branding county projects and the vehicles. I personally have seen duplication of the projects by different state corporations. There is a water project which has been done by three people. It was done by ADB, later on done by a Member of Parliament and later on done by again the state corporation Water Service Board. So, many projects are done in Kenya by different agencies. There are projects done by ADB, World Bank, UNICEF and none of them put their pictures or the flags of their governments or do branding on those projects. Why should the Member of Parliament, the MCA or the Governor put their images or brand the projects and yet these are Government or public resources? The brand the project showing that this is the project done by so and so and it has their picture. We should not allow that because this is a project which is beneficial to each person. If you put individual pictures there, it may give the impression that this project is meant for one community and another community in a different scenario or in a political line. Also, it helps in political campaign for individual political parties. On this issue of branding of the vehicle, the number plates of the Government vehicles are different from that of a private vehicle. If we restrict ourselves on the registration of the vehicle number, it is enough instead of putting individual picture of the Governor. As Senators, we have fought for devolution to work and devolution is working. I am also a Member of the Committee on Finance and Budget and we have fought with our chair that we raise the shareable figure to Kshs415 billion. If we have added the amount of money for them, then they should not personalize the projects they are doing. In this case, the EACC, the Auditor General and also Controller of Budget must collaborate to investigate on this so that the integrity and accountability of each office holders can be done, so that this branding cannot be done for the vehicles and for the projects. When it comes to this shareable figure of the equitable share, the governors are saying these are flagship projects for them. That shows that individual has personalized those projects and ended up putting their pictures and brands. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when they are doing this branding, they use public funds. That is wastage of public resources and there is no materiality of that. There is no value for money on that branding."
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"content": "I have heard many members contributing on this and everything has been said and I support. The prayers of the petitioner must be granted. The recommendations of the committee are that there should be amendments. When this House passes those resolutions, the County Governments Act must be fast-tracked and done quickly so that this branding stops before the end of this term."
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"content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, with those remarks, I support."
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"content": " Thank you, Sen. Mariam."
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"content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I support this Motion. Being a member of the Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations, I also congratulate Mr. Laban Omusundi. He came before our Committee and this is not the first time. I have seen him bringing issues to the Senate on several occasions. Mr. Laban is a local person trying to help this country in his own way, using his money; transport to come to Nairobi, buy food and a place to sleep. This is what we must encourage because Laban is using his own resources to try and help this country."
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"content": "The issues he brought before our Committee are fundamental. He was asking; a politician uses money, not from his pocket, paid by tax payers’ money to even travel, eat and to come and represent his people in Parliament. Our recommendation as a Committee is that, branding projects, vehicles or any institution is wrong and unethical. People and counties build toilets and they put pictures of MCAs. You will find toilets and billboards being erected with the names of MCAs, MPs or even governors. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I live in Karen and the road to Karen where I live is called Korongo road. Surprisingly, there is a billboard on the right side of the road just as you enter Korongo road, which is a rough road with the MCAs name which has been there for the last five or six years. You should see that road today. I brought a statement to this Committee because that road is impassable. It is absurd to see a MCA putting his name and photo, and that of the governor on that road and claiming that this road is being built by the Nairobi City County. This is misleading, wrong and unethical. In that Committee, displaying project name and photos and the date of completion and date of commencement are there. If you look at that Korongo road, commencement date has elapsed five years ago and the road is not constructed up to date. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, somebody was talking about Morara. I have been watching his programmes when he goes out there. There was a time the President was in Mombasa. He said this project started and it is ongoing. After a few days, I saw Morara standing in the same place claiming that this is what the President said and that there was nothing ongoing in regard to tat project. I know the President, he does not want to lie. He is trying his best to see how this country will move forward. He has got a vision. However, the problem is there are people who are misleading him. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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