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    "id": 1097883,
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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": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I urge you not to just refer this Statement to a Committee to look at but that you direct the Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations and Committee on Finance and Budget to either visit Vihiga County or summon the leadership of the County Assembly and County Executive of Vihiga County to appear before the committees and deal with the matter. A further precedence to this matter was the standoff in Bungoma County where the governor had received the money for salaries but mischievously diverted the funds to pay suppliers. Thereafter, the governor of Bungoma County pretended to the public that the reason that the county was having problems in paying salaries was because a supplementary budget had not been passed by the county assembly. The Controller of Budget testified before a Committee of the Senate that money had been sent for salaries but the governor has misapplied it to other interests. When the Committee of this House summoned both parties on the complain of the County Assembly of Bungoma, matters were resolved. The County Assembly now receives their money to run their day to day operations while the matters for the County Executive of Bungoma have been sorted out. We support the concerns of the Senator for Vihiga County about his county. We go further to say that this House can deal with these matters by summoning the parties before the committees that I have mentioned. That can be done as early as Monday. When there are extraordinary problems, they need extraordinary measures to resolve them. We have come to the end of the last financial cycle and we are entering the next financial cycle, where there is such a standoff, the victims are wananchi; it is not the county executive or assembly that will suffer. It is the ordinary person who does not find drugs in the health centres, see a pothole patched on the road, see water on the taps, who will not see garbage collection at the market or anything being done. We cannot allow leadership in any county to engage in unhelpful activities that hurt the ordinary person in this country. I thank you."
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