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    "id": 1063363,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Langat",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Christopher Andrew Langat",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I support the Division of Revenue Bill. The Senate is doing great work as far fighting for this money to go to our counties. However, we still have some few challenges that I want to highlight here, right from the National Treasury. If you go to our counties, you will see most of the projects that have stalled and become white elephants, and the governors still complain that the National Treasury has not released the money on time. The Senate is doing well, but the challenge is still with the National Treasury. This delay in disbursement of funds to the counties has led to some of the projects stalling. Most of the contractors have failed to get their money. There is a lot of money that the contractors have not received. This should be taken seriously. Although this House is empowered by Article 96 (3) of the Constitution to determine the money that goes to the counties, last time it almost split this House by half. The greatest challenged is on oversight. We are in charge of the oversight, but the greatest challenge is that we are not empowered to do that. The organ that is supposed to do it is the Auditor General. We have been attending the County Public Accounts and Investment Committee (CPAIC) meetings and realized that even the Auditor General has been delaying so much, such that if you check the audit report we are going through now, it is of the last three years when the money has already been misused by the governors and other people who are concerned with it. Corruption has taken place. People have developed themselves instead of the county projects. The other problem that should be checked is the delay by the Auditor General. We have a lot of challenges. The other day, we saw news on Citizen TV that the money that we had determined to fight COVID-19 was misused. The governors engaged some dubious contractors---"
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