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    "id": 1148761,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1148761/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13217,
        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
        "slug": "cherarkey-k-samson"
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I congratulate Sen. Khaniri my neighbour and the incoming Governor of Vihiga County for bringing this Statement. I do not know why Sen. Kwamboka is smiling. Sen. Khaniri is part of Azimio la Umoja. I remember my County Assembly of Nandi did an investigation on KUSPs. It is unfortunate that there are deaths. I challenge the Committee that in one of its recommendations, some of the senior county officials in Vihiga County must be prosecuted for negligence and losing sacred lives. I hope the Committee is listening very carefully. Lives are very important. These donations are supposed to help our people to get better access to roads, improvement of access to water and electricity. These are donors that have given money through the support programme. We have had these issues also in audit queries when the counties appear. It is the same thing in Nandi County. We got a lot of funding up to around Kshs500 million from KUSPs, through National Agricultural and Rural Inclusive Growth Project (NAGRIP) among other organisations. That informed our decision to pass The County Grants Bill. This is because we needed to ring-fence that money. Those donations that were being given to counties through KUSP, NAGRIP and the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) were being misused by county governments and governors. It is good the Senate went ahead and passed the law that now ring-fenced Kshs39 billion. You remember before we passed the law, most such as my governor would go to public barazas and say no money had been released, yet it is the money given through donation, that is, Kshs39 billion. He is lying to the people of Nandi County without telling them that Equalization Fund has been released. When we became wiser as the Senate, we passed the law. Now, we have a legal framework where they must be held accountable for the money that is meant to assist the people of Vihiga, Nandi, Nairobi counties and across the nation. I hope we will be seized of this matter."
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