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    "id": 1019062,
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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": "Madam Deputy Speaker, secondly, we have seen over and over again the Chair of the CoG overplaying himself with authority he does not have; exceedingly abusing the Senate as an institution, abusing Senators as individuals; making reckless statements at funerals, including last weekend at the funeral of a respected Bishop, Byrum Makokha, of the Church of God. He said that Kenyans are suffering because of Senators. How wicked can one be to lay blame where it does not lie? This House does not operate in a vacuum. We operate with the Executive, where all resources of the country are domiciled. We operate with the National Assembly, where appropriations are done. We operate with the counties themselves that have to tell us how much own-source revenue they are collecting. These hospitals that he is purporting to shut down, collect resources daily. What are those resources doing? I want to stand here and urge Members to take great exception to this reckless misadventure by the Chairman of the CoG, and remind him that he should bring his governors to order in terms of accountability and respect for public resources. Madam Deputy Speaker, we saw last week that eight governors are on the radar of EACC. There is no single Senator who is on the radar of anybody. He has to learn that accountability of public resources use is not anybody’s option. When Senators ask questions, he even had the temerity to call a committee of this House, an extortionist gang. You remember what he said about CPAIC; that it is an extortionist gang and when governors come here, they pay bribes to Members of the Senate. We are not aware of any single governor who has ever gone to any agency of investigations and governance to report that a Senator has solicited for money from them for discharge of their responsibilities. This must come to an end and I want to urge Senators to voice their revulsion and disgust at this reckless behaviour by a governor, who has served in Parliament for years and ought to know the boundary between the Legislature and the Executive. Tomorrow---"
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