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    "id": 1041828,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Duncan Okatch",
    "speaker_title": "The Counsel for the Nairobi City County Assembly",
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    "content": "These funds were to be utilised to pay bursaries. Let us assume that schools were not opened in July and they went to vacation in August. We have August and September when schools were on and schools fees was payable. We have January, 2020 when schools were on and fees was payable. Why was this money not utilised? The simple reason is that it was not there. It had long gone and had been utilised illegally. An orphan somewhere did not go to school because of this action. So, it is not a trivial issue. You will also notice that you have been told that the only reason that these funds were not utilised was because it was the COVID-19 period. Everyone knows and takes judicial notice that COVID-19 was declared at the first instance in Kenya in March, 2020. From July, 2019 to March, 2020, was there COVID-19 before? Could that arise as a defence for the Governor? It is actually using a pandemic to justify an illegality and embezzlement. If that does not strike your conscience, nothing else can strike it. You have been told straightforward. To that particular extent, I will delve straight into these submissions, as I will be yielding to my senior in a few minutes. You have been told that there is a time for everything. The framers of our Constitution designed it in a perfect way that gives this particular House the powers to deal with this instance. When the will of the people is being subverted you cannot wait for the social contract to last for five years? You have been given the constitutional power to deal with it. Nicolo Machiavelli said, ‘God is not willing to do everything and thus take away our free will, that share of the glory he will not take away because it belongs to only us.’ Today that power is bestowed upon this particular Senate. It is you to act. God will not act for us. He has given us the powers in our hands. You have heard when we were showing the videos that when there was direct publication of an abuse expletives, the Governor himself could not read that. We have demonstrated that this came from him."
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