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    "id": 1018917,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1018917/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "think of closing down the endless teas and mandazis they eat every day in their offices? Why did they not think of reducing the convoys that run around the counties creating nuisance? I have personally seen a pick up using public resources carrying a seat for the Governor of Kakamega to go and sit on at a funeral, 50 kilometers away. I have seen with my two eyes a & like seat from Kakamega town all the way to corners of Kakamega for him to sit on at a funeral. When I turn up as a party leader, Senator and as a Presidential candidate, I sit on a plastic chair that everybody else is sitting on. These governors must be brought to order. This money---I want to urge the President, because the back of provision of our oversight money has always got stuck at his table, you have done very well in giving this money to go to the counties, but there is a serious deficit of accountability in the counties. There is a serious misapplication and outright theft of resources in the counties. Enable this House to carry out a better oversight role. Enable these Senators, over and above carrying out postmortems on expenditure, to go back to the counties and do budget tracking to ensure that whatever budgets are passed by the assemblies, are being spent in the manner they were budgeted for. Otherwise, we will continue as we have always done. We pass budgets, send money and what we are doing this evening is we have created an increased list of billionaires in Kenya. A few governors will deep their hand in the tin and will be sitting all over boasting how rich they are, knowing very well that yesteryears they were nothing."
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