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    "id": 1169247,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "Final appreciation goes to the distinguished and dedicated members of the Committee who created time out of their busy schedule to attend an actively processing and final production of these Reports. Madam Temporary Speaker, on behalf of the Sessional Committee on Public Accounts and Investment (CPAIC) I now urge the Senate to adopt the Reports and recommendations therein. Noting that we are at the end of the session it will be my prayer that this Report be adopted because last week we adopted the previous one. If these ones are adopted, then we do not need to cross over with it to the 13th Parliament. That way, we will have Reports for the Financial Year 2020/2021 taken up. If we can clear with these one, that will be good progress for us as a Committee and as a House. It has been said by Sen. Ndwiga when he was contributing to our Petition that the unfortunate situation is that as Senators we allocate money to the counties but we do not have direct oversight role at that level. We only wait for these reports to come and then we interrogate them. The public expects a lot from us. During the campaign time we have problems explaining what we have been doing as Senators because there is that disconnect. Once we have allocated funds from here we do not have any means of oversighting that fund directly at the county level. It is for the county assembly to do that. However, the understanding of the Kenyan public has been that leaders such as Members of Parliament (MP’s) and governors are involved in development issues but it leaves out the Senators. We must have a way to see how we can proactively engage and have a mechanism between us and the county assemblies so that we can improve our oversight role. For the last 10 years, we have been asking for an Oversight Fund, which unfortunately could not go through the National Assembly but we still need to see how we can improve on our oversight role. I beg to move and ask Sen. Cherargei to second."
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