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    "id": 1198173,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this Motion. I am one of the Members proposed to join the County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC) by the leadership. For the first time, we amended the Standing Orders and now we have the CPISFC. I am aware my brother, Sen. Osotsi, is salivating for the chairmanship of that Committee and also Sen. Oketch Gicheru has similar appetite. I cannot understate the role of these three important committees. Having served in the County Public Accounts and Investments Committee (CPAIC) for three years in the last session, there are many challenges. Sen. Olekina, a number of Members and I have been regular in some of those committees. There are a number of lessons that you can learn from our experience. It is also good to acknowledge that you were a good client to our Committee on several occasions and you did appear before us. I am happy that you are a good example. When you were the Governor of Kilifi County, there is no day when you ever declined an invitation or showed contempt towards this important Committee. You diligently, with a lot of commitment and passion appeared before the Committee when called upon. You provided the necessary evidence and support to the Committee and this assisted us in doing our work. The Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Madzayo, who is your Senator, was always present. There were a number of governors who did not honour committee invites. You need to whisper to some of your former colleagues that Article 226(5) states that even if you leave that office, you can be held liable. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you had disobeyed or not appeared before our Committee, it would have raised serious issues before we elected you as the Speaker of the Senate. Governors must be held accountable and there is no option or two way traffic about it. I call upon the Committee to do their job without fear, favour or contradiction. We gave out billions of shillings to counties. Sen. Olekina talked about the push and pull that we had here over the revenue formula. Those days, I was the general of one-man, one-vote, one-shilling. I still stand by that principle. There were a number of colleagues whose counties were gaining, but decided to join the losing counties. It is embarrassing that after fighting so hard for three months on the revenue formula as provided by the Constitution, that money cannot be accounted for. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the counties affected by drought and famine were the ones who were given large amounts of money. They misquoted me in the media and said that I said: “you cannot allocate money to trees.” I was misquoted. The same counties that are lamenting about drought like Kajiado, Turkana and others are the same counties that got billions of shillings that cannot be accounted for. It rains daily in my county and it is raining even today. In Nandi County, for example, it rains for 11 out of the 12 months. However, there is nothing to show for it."
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