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    "id": 1151251,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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        "id": 13219,
        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "the people on the ground especially on provision of services. If you compare teaching where we have teachers paid by the national Government in primary and secondary schools and teachers paid by county Governments for Early Childhood Education (ECD), the ones paid by county governments at the ECD level are the most miserable. They do not have good conditions of service. Most of them are serving on contract; not on permanent and pensionable terms. They do not have the medicare and those whose contracts come to an end are never paid their gratuity. It is sad and very unfortunate. We appeal to our chief executives at the county level to have it at the back of their mind that the money that we send them year-in, year-out, is meant to take services close to our people and to touch the lives of the people we represent. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will give you a sad case. On Sunday I was at home and heard of Purity Nyakundi who went to deliver at Gesima Hospital. She spent three days at Gesima Health Centre without being attended by any medical officer. By the time she was delivering, because of stress she died and also lost her baby. It is very sad. In our community when somebody goes to give birth the community back home waits to ululate the birth, not to mourn. That is the sad situation that is prevailing on the ground that we are not even able to have sympathy even for our women, our mothers, who go to hospital to give birth. We cannot provide such a basic service to our people and it is really sad. The main role of Senators as Sen. M. Kajwang’ has ably pointed out is to ensure that we put in place a formula that ensures that all our counties are given money that can support their services. The first point of call for oversight are our Member of County Assembly (MCAs). I have sat in this Senate where we have seen impeachments of at least three governors and in each of these cases. Without the role of MCAs invoking Article 185(3) of our Constitution there is no way this Senate would have impeached those governors. There has been this very misleading notion from most of the residents in counties that oversight is the role of a Senator. Senators even in the US sit as judges. We sit here as judges. You cannot be the one investigating, prosecuting and passing judgement at the same time. The people who must be on the lookout, the first point of call for oversight, are our MCAs. They are the ones who pass this budget. Once we send this money to our counties the people who are going to sit down and ensure that the money is allocated for development project are our MCAs. The people who should have committees on implementation, committees on oversight again are the MCAs. If there is any misuse of money, the MCAs should be able to take action and investigate these governors. Where there are good grounds to impeach, impeach them and send files to us as Senators to sit as judges and send home those who should be sent home. We are approaching elections and most governors think that the money that is being sent to them should be used for campaigns. I urge that our bodies that are there to ensure that we use our money for intended purposes in a prudent way. The Ethics and"
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