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    "id": 1041805,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ndegwa Njiru",
    "speaker_title": "The Counsel for the Nairobi City County Assembly",
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    "content": " Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. File No.9 (a) contains the flagrant misuse of public resources by the governor of Nairobi City County. It gives evidence on how money that is meant for bursaries is diverted to pay lawyers. We have demonstrated that the money came to the account on the 11th of July 2019 and the same money, on the 15th July, advocates were paid millions and millions of shillings. This was money meant for our children. A question was asked whether those children were able to be put through school. How would those children go to school when their money has been used for the wrong purpose? They cannot go to school. That is why we ask this House to stand up to the occasion, and rise and rescue the people of Nairobi. Governor Mike Mbuvi Sonko operates the ‘Sonko Rescue Team’. We must use this House to now rescue the people of Nairobi City County from governor Sonko. The rescuer is the person we need to be rescued from. Members of this hon. House, we have evidence that a stadium that our sportsmen, sportswomen, and youth are supposed to utilize for sports was given a particular clarification of a particular specification. What did we get in return? We got scrap metals being used to put up a stadium. Has that been rebutted? No. What does the governor say? The governor says in a manner that I would not want to describe, so that I will not be accused of being disrespectful. He said that it was not his officer. The officer left the office. He does not even have the guts or the ability to realize that Section 30 of the County Government Act enjoins him as the sole person who has the responsibility of protecting the public resources. What does the Public Procurement and Regulations Authority (PPRA) say? They say that the money was not put into proper use. What does Article 201 of the Constitution say? It says that there must be prudent use of public resources. Prudent use means that Kenyans should not lose even a single shilling. A single shilling matters to a Kenyan. Why? They are the taxpayers. Why? They own the money. There should be no excuse for all purposes and intent to excuse a flagrant person. Evidence has been read that we did not get value for the money when it came to the question of the construction of the Dandora Stadium."
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