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    "id": 1018789,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "stumper",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, we have been talking about being funded to go and oversight. I am starting to think differently. We need to have a structured way of doing oversight. We can do so using the resources that we have because if we wait, we will finish the remaining two years without doing anything. Madam Temporary Speaker, we have made savings because of COVID-19. We need to ask ourselves in a retreat set up, which I hope the Speaker allow us, so that we reorganize and ask ourselves how we are to do oversight. This is because we may be remembered for a long a time for releasing this money, but we will be remembered more for not taking the accountability part of our role seriously. We need to think of other ways; whether we use our Committees or ourselves, but we need to have concerted effort. One thing about the Senate is that it is not every Senator taking care of his or her own county, but the interests of the 47 counties. Sen. Murkomen always reminds us that we are responsible for the whole country, and not one individual county. We need to have a way in which all of us can oversight the whole country. It is my plea that we change our strategy. Let us not continue to plead for this money that does not seem to be coming, but use the resources that we have and ensure that we do proper accountability as far as the resources are concerned. To the governors, I was very shocked by my friend and former colleague in the Cabinet, Governor Oparanya. I was shocked because he drank the same tea that our leadership drank in State House. He went for the meeting and thereafter, he flipped. I want to plead with our governors that they must take accountability of the resources very seriously. They should not take advantage of any--- It is done."
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