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    "id": 695221,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen Cheruiyot",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13165,
        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this chance. First of all, I wish to congratulate Nyeri County Assembly for work well done. I consider them and rank them along other county assemblies and some of the things that we see are brought to us for those of us who sit in the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget. We get to read some of the petitions and you get the sense that this is a county assembly that is serious with the work that it does. However, the matters that are before us are grave and serious. I have had an opportunity to read through each of the three charges that have been brought before us. I take keen interest in charge “a” where the Governor is accused that as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), he failed on account of gross violation of the Constitution of Kenya, the County Governments Act, the PFM Act of 2012 and the Public Procurement and Disposals Act. The charge is about prudence and whether the Nyeri County Governor made good decisions. It is not about whether there was theft of money but whether he made the right decisions. I liken them to two boys who were sent with Kshs100 each to go and buy packets of milk. One chooses to buy two packets in a supermarket and the other buys one in a shop. If you run the test of theft on these boys, none of them will be found to have stolen. If you run the test of prudence, one of them fails. If you run the test of prudence on Nyeri County Government, they will not pass. Something is wrong on the account of the lease of this Karson Photo House. The County Assembly may not have demonstrated to us properly and the people that were supposed to have done the job of studying this document with more prudence have equally failed us. They have come here and contradicted us and we find ourselves in a difficult situation. We make decisions based on the evidence that has been adduced before us. It is so unfortunate that when we eventually gather here today, we will make a decision that perhaps later or in retrospect, we will look back and question why we let this happen. I hope governors watching us tonight including those of us in this House who aspire to be governors, will not take this as an excuse and know that they can play with public resources and get away with it. Let it be known, and I think this is a yellow card that we will give to the Governor of Nyeri County. If you do not change, a red card awaits you. We will let you ---"
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