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    "id": 1075458,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I also join colleagues who have supported the gallant citizen from Kisii who has petitioned this House. It is a very unfortunate situation all over the country that governors do not seem to understand or even appreciate the line between public and private property to the extent that governors run counties as if they are personal entities even denying the public information or setting up critical organs that are part and parcel of what would made devolution succeed. I join the distinguished Senators who have spoken; Sen. Malalah, Sen. Cherargei, Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., and Sen. Wambua in decrying the pervasion of corruption going on in counties. Some cases reach this House and some do not but what is going on out there is disheartening to the spirit of devolution. Governors treat public finances as if they are their hard-earned monies. They use the monies to go around doing all manner of crazy things, bribing anybody who comes their way to get their way, bullying those who do not agree with them and doing very strange things. Madam Deputy Speaker, we say here over and over that the institutions of governance in this country must be strengthened. We need to strengthen the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution (ODPP), the Office of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), Auditor General and the oversight committees of assemblies to ensure that governors are brought to book. For example, in my county just like Sen. Malalah has been saying, most of the contracts in the county are done by the governors’ proxies. Literary, road constructions and any supplies. You will find phony companies all over but they are all proxies of the governor. This is true of everywhere. You also find like now, when the County Assembly of Bungoma rose to ask serious questions about management of public resources. The governor with utter impunity has denied the release of resources to the County Assembly of Bungoma to make it function. This is a criminal offence for which we are going to cite him and make"
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