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    "id": 1061537,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13165,
        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, we, as a House, would have failed in our primary responsibility and we will not have a raison d'être, if I may put it that way. I know that later on today and not to anticipate debate, but we shall be discussing about membership of the Committee on County Public Accounts and Investments. If you do recall, you know my position on that particular issue. I have always felt that the way we have handled audit reports of various counties by way of a Committee does not work for me. I would wish that we had a Committee of the Whole where you cluster Senators into four or five groups. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as a Senate Committee where you are ten of you, each one presents the audit report of your specific county so that your governor appears before you. It is not just the invitation that we normally get from a clerk of a Committee. You are told your governor will be appearing before CPAIC tomorrow, please come and listen in. Sometimes even when you go there because you are a stranger, you are not so accustomed to how that Committee is ran; you are not even allowed to ask the relevant questions. This trend that is being set by our colleagues from Wajir County is one that will help us achieve more on oversight. I will be keen to follow up and ensure that I urge my colleague Sen. (Dr.) Ali to ensure that when this matter is being prosecuted before that Committee that he takes a keen interest. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is so that eventually when we get a report back to this House, it makes a decision whether or not that actually the best route to prosecute audit reports and emerging issues of governance that are arising in our counties. Otherwise, we shall only be a House of lamentation. I know each of us. We had a discussion the other day about how our various counties spent the COVID-19 mitigation funds. In each county, you know very well the things that have happened. If you were to wait for audit reports, perhaps they will come to this House in 2023. By that time, how relevant and useful will they be? Most of the governors who will have pilfered those resources will not even be in office to answer to those charges."
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