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    "id": 1029489,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Mwaura",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the Statement by Sen. Malalah. Today, we were going through County Public Accounts and Investments Committee (CPAIC) reports of the Kiambu County Assembly and we were very shocked to realize the irregularities that are happening in the county assemblies and the bodies that are supposed to oversighting the various county governments. For example, in Kiambu County, there are two clerks. One of them, it is not known how that person was recruited. Can you imagine! Two clerks! We were surprised to see some company called Malin that was paid Kshs1.5 million and about Kshs800, 000 was put in a suspense account and then paid to multiple banks. This thuggery and stealing is very real. I do not know what we are going to do as a country. This is because to be very honest and sincere, our counties do not have capacity. When we say capacity, we do not mean people who have degrees and big tittles. No. It is the tenacity and the propensity to continuously do something in a predictable manner. We do not have institutions for devolution in this country. That is the truth. I know that we want to give more monies to counties. If monies are devolved, they will still find a way of transforming the landscape. This is because if they have misappropriated, people will build houses, they will also go to those private hospitals and pay people because they are more privileged and the public hospitals will be having a lot of hemorrhage. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am extremely saddened because if you ask Kenyans---I have just come from being with people at Githurai market. If you tell people to wear their masks, they do not want to listen to you. We were having a walk of some persons with disability who have walked for 40 kilometres from Nairobi to Witeithie in Thika in a fundraising for a school that helps the needy. People no longer care. People are already doing their normal businesses. I would want to also- as Sen. Nyamunga said- to blame county governments. It is just the culture of impunity. The coincidence that when the monies from KEMSA were misappropriated, is also the time the numbers went down, also made people to become skeptical about this COVID-19. How comes when the monies were being embezzled is also when Corona cases was going down? Right now people are saying, ‘ Huu pia ni mpango mwingine wa watu kukuliwa"
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