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    "id": 1123723,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Ochillo-Ayacko",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I am driven by the desire of Migori County for good governance. If you look at the exemplary work that Sen. M. Kajwang’ did when he was the Chairman of the CPAIC, he discovered that Migori County is a mess and that it needed the sacrifice that I am making. I would love to stay here as a Senator, but I have got to do something about that mess in Migori County. I hope you and I succeed in our other lives. Mr. Speaker, Sir, my point is: I do not know what kind of jurisprudence is in this decision by the court that my brother and senior, Sen. Wetangula, has spoken about, trying to clamp and limit the oversight space of the Senate or Parliament on matters that are public activities. The Senate oversights the National Government and anything that is of public interest. I wonder what that particular judge was thinking of. Why was he imagining that we have no skill and mandate to oversight locally generated revenue if we can interrogate matters like security, water and health that affect our people in counties? So, this are the kinds of judgment that should not be issued against an Institution of this mandate. If this Institution is allowed its space and given it facilitation to work, this country will be better. If judges just like us who want good governance, place hurdles, bumps and other obstructive decisions on our path, I wonder whether that is in public interest. I thought judicial decisions were made in public interest. So, what public interest does it serve to say that the Senate cannot look at own generated revenue? I think that serves dark, opaque and parochial interest that is of no use to the Senate or anybody. Just like Sen. Wetangula has encouraged Sen. M. Kajwang’s Committee, this matter should not be left where it is. It should be taken to the right platform, be debated properly and all institutions encouraged and facilitated to have enough space to discharge their obligations. Kenyans expect a lot of us, as an Institution. They even wonder why we do wonderful reports like the one we are discussing and others made by other Committees, but when it comes to implementation, they are not implemented. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I encourage the Committee on Devolution and Inter- Governmental Relations not to relent. The Senate was established to defend, represent and make devolution fruitful to ourselves and our people. They should be partner with the Committee of Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights and ensure that there is no encroachment on the authority and powers of the Senate and Parliament. If they do that, as a Parliament, we will become a body that we were designed to be; a body that fights on the side of liberating Kenyans from poor governance and malpractice by people whose agenda is to get rich quickly. Mr. Speaker, Sir, devolution has worked and still has more work to do in future. It has so much work to do in future that we should pay more attention to it. We have a very bad or poor relationship between this House and our sister House, the National Assembly, on matters that would progress us to where we are supposed to be. I hope that the Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations will find a magic wand to thaw the frozen relationship that we have between us and the National Assembly. I hear that anything that is progressive, provided there is possibility - however remote - of extrapolating the matter and claiming that it has financial"
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