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    "id": 1186151,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13199,
        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "allocation of funds for the county headquarters. The Senate CPAIC has a job to do. Sen. M. Kajwang’ has a job to do. The last thing is a general comment. Senators, are sitting late. The Committee on Budget and Finance has taken a lot of time to work on this Bill, to allocate funds and bring allocations to the Senate for processing, debating and eventually passing it for the money to go to the counties. Madam Temporary Speaker, from my experience when we sit late in the night to pass these Bills and allocate money to them, the governors and their governments are happy. They should be equally happy when we go there to oversight the expenditure of these funds. It should be okay when we facilitate release of money to counties and also okay when we ask how these monies are spent. In our oversight responsibility as Senators, we cannot just look at processes. We shall also be interested in the scope of work for the monies allocated, the quality of the work done and most importantly, in the value for money. I conclude by saying that this speaks to the dire need for this Senate to push again and ensure that Senators are properly facilitated to undertake their oversight function. The work of the Senate and any Senator is incomplete if we are unable to carry proper oversight. We can only carry our proper oversight if we have an oversight fund. That, among other thing, enables us to procure the services of qualified personnel in monitoring and evaluation in all spheres of project development. It also makes we hold governors and their governments to account in the spending of Equitable Share and Additional Funds. With those remarks, I support."
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