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    "id": 1014822,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1014822/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13162,
        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "In some cases, we were told there was no electricity and housing for the equipment, surely, for five years? If life gives you lemon, make lemonade out of it. I want to support the Committee where they have said that Governors who did not implement or install the machinery of the equipment should bear some fiduciary responsibility and culpability. They paid for the equipment and yet their counties were not getting any service or value for money. Perhaps one of the reasons why many Members have a problem with the last chapter of the Report is that the issues are discussed in the body of the Report. The culpability and criminality of the actions of governors are discussed on several pages in the body of the report. What the Committee ought to have done was to copy that and make sure that it forms part of the recommendations and to identify the counties where items were kept in boxes for eight or seven years. Mr. Speaker, Sir, let me move to this Senate. This Senate has approved the Division of Revenue, County Allocation of Revenue for all these years. The money that has gone to MES has not been a secret. We have appropriated it. It is a column Called, Conditional grant and we watched as it grew from Kshs31 million to Kshs200 million. Every year we said, “next year we shall not approve.” This thing was to run for seven years which has run out. Here we are with a 365-page report making a lot of noise when we have been part of the problem. We need to be candid with ourselves. We even said that this year’s County Allocation of Revenue Act (CARA) which we have just passed, is there not a column for Kshs200 million? Did anybody check whether the Kshs200 million is there? How can we speak from both sides of the mouth; criticize the government for putting Kshs200 million per county and in the same afternoon pass CARA with those amounts. We have \\failed the nation. Let us use this report to think about how we can prevent such things from happening in the future. The mistake has been by the executive, Governors, the Senate and the County Assemblies. In many of our counties, I went to about four or five counties, when I was the Chairperson Public Accounts Committee, the County Assemblies have never interrogated the utilization of the equipment sent to their counties, yet their counties continue to pay money. This is a good Report but as the Americans say, it is “all hat and no cattle.”"
}