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    "id": 1005132,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Maina",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 75,
        "legal_name": "Ephraim Mwangi Maina",
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    "content": "Kshs500 million. We are talking about a colossal amount of money which can do a lot of things. The Committee should go deeper when it looks into this matter. Public participation is a fallacy in all the counties. All they need to do is to call a few people who are either like-minded or people who do not care and ask them to sign a paper that they have agreed with the project. Such people’s concern is the per diem . In fact, it leaves you wondering how public participation is done. This Senate should be given proper facilitation for oversight. We were told that there was some Kshs2 billion that was to be given to us. Every Senator should have an office where they can employ proper personnel who can follow these things other than just setting committees to look at petitions. That will help us get the reports. We have now been left with the responsibility of passing budgets but most of us have a great moral weight in our hearts. We do pass huge budgets yet we know that we are passing it for somebody to go and buy another big car, add another wife or open an account abroad. We have been reading about these things. We have heard of people who have put Kshs2 billion for their children abroad and no action has been taken against them. This House was supposed to oversight and take action before these things happen. Some of us have very heavy hearts because of the plunder that we have seen in this country. We have seen plunders in our own counties. Recently, a temporary toilet was constructed using iron sheets in my own county using Kshs3 million and there was a ceremony to open it. There were billboards showing that it was a County Government project. The billboard had the pictures of the Governor and the Member of the County Assembly (MCA). That was an insult to the people. The people actually pulled it down. These are the kind of things that we are seeing. I know that Kshs500 million can be used to build the best house or palace. One does not even need Kshs500 million to build a Chamber. One can build a Chamber that will serve people with Kshs150 million. Uasin Gishu County Government has been there since time immemorial. There are old men who were more honorable and made good decisions. They were meeting in the old Chamber. Why does the Executive of Uasin Gishu County want to buy a huge building?"
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