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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank you, for giving me this chance. I sympathize with the people of Vihiga County. This is quite an unfortunate situation that the leaders that they elected into office and entrusted with the affairs of their county are not serving them. The people of Vihiga County have done their part; they have dutifully paid their taxes and all that they expect is services when they go to their county hospitals. Those who work in the various county offices are well remunerated so that when they go to receive the various services that people receive from county governments, they find it to be working. Of all the weird petitions and pleas that have come to the Senate since 2013, this one is a winner. That the County Executive Committee, which includes the governor, his deputy and the CEC members cannot agree. This calls into question the competence of the good governor of Vihiga County and the County Assembly of Vihiga. Sen. Wambua has mentioned something that is quite clear. It may not be known to many colleague Senators - I see this practice in the National Assembly and our county assemblies as well - before the budget is passed, various CECM have to appear before the various county assemblies to make pleadings of their budget by saying what is more important to them and part of their programmes. The MCAs will then sit and consider the quests made, consider the limited resources and pick the things to fund. I do not understand how the County Assembly of Vihiga sat and approved the budget and that it only took the watchful eye of a diligent citizen to notice and go to court. The courts seem to have agreed with the citizen. This incident points out to us that even we as Senators, we have a lot of mentorship to do to many of our county assemblies. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Vihiga County is not the only county experiencing this challenge. Various other county assemblies have this challenge. We have handled other petitions that have been brought to our various committees where county assemblies are more vigorous in the defense of the county executive than the county executive members themselves."
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