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    "id": 1051329,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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        "id": 13219,
        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
        "slug": "erick-okongo-mogeni"
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, going forward I hope that it will be mandatory that own-source revenue should be collected digitally and we do away with the issue of manual collection because that is the easiest way of siphoning money that is meant to go to the accounts of the county governments to be used for giving services to the people. Finally, audit committees in our counties are not working. The MCAs do not understand that if you read the Constitution and the County Governments Act, they are the first port of call in ensuring that they oversight the governor and their county executives. However, oftentimes, MCAs assume that the work of over sighting counties is the mandate of the Senate alone. If our MCAs were to undertake their work, if they read the Constitution, they have the mandate to summon County Executive Committee Members (CECMs). They can pass Motions to impeach CECMs or summon the governor to appear before them. However, oftentimes you find that some MCAs are in bed with the executive. They do not want to oversight the executive. When you go to the counties, they will say the work of oversight is for the Senate. No! Let them read the Constitution. If our MCAs partnered with us to ensure that they do their work properly, in the work of over sighting our counties, we will have very little as the Senate to do. I hope that going forward the MCAs can discharge their constitutional mandate and oversight our county governments and the CECMs by periodically summoning them to appear before them to give them updates on projects. When they allocate money through the budget, there should be a follow up. They should call the County Executive Committee Member (CECM) on the state of a project and where there are issues, they should take action."
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