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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Tom Ojienda, SC",
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    "content": "First of all, let me highlight on the outcome of the two petitions - Petition No.31 and No.27 on the filling at the Supreme Court. The previous speakers have spoken to the importance of a summon to governors. I think it is that accountability that is important, that a personal surcharge will be a consequence of governors not appearing before Senate Under Article 226(5). Governors in this country must know that when the Senate summons them, they have an obligation to appear. This Senate must work differently from the previous one. Sen. Cherarkey, this Senate must go beyond over and above what you did so that where a governor refuses to appear before the Senate, this Senate should take further action. I am alive, for instance, to the statement that will be brought to this House by the Senator of Narok County on accountability. It is on what Narok County has done to the CPAC and we have no clear accounts. We must emphasize that under this new Senate, now that the CPISFC is separate from the CPAC, we want to see all those public investments and special funds set by counties accounted for. We want to see independent institutions, for instance, Jaramogi Oginga-Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital in my county- coming up and showing us how it runs the facility. It should also show how it accounts for funds and how services are rendered to the public and the citizens of the county. We want to the see Committee on Delegated Legislation working and delivering. Where that Committee sits, I hear Sen. Omogeni is in it, that we see results. We do not want to see a back and forth. The Senator of Kakamega has spoken to the question of accountability. Today, he wears the big shoes of the Senate Majority Leader. He has pointed that under Chapter 10 of the Constitution, accountability and basic accountability of Senators and all public officers underpins the work of the three Sessional Committees. It is a message that we must send to all the governors that this time round, we should do things differently in the Senate. I do not need to take more time on that. I support all Members who have been nominated to serve in these committees. I see diverse skills in these committees have to rise to the occasion and do something differently. I understand that in the last Senate, Chairpersons would have meetings with some of the people who had been summoned and some of these questions would then just disappear. That culture must stop. We must have a Senate that calls upon every governor in this country to account. This is so that all those funds that are disbursed to those counties find work in what they are intended for. We want to see roads constructed if there are funds that are supposed to be used for putting murram or making transport issue. My learned friend has spoken to roads in his county which cannot be used. Finally, it is the public that suffers where funds meant for public purpose are diverted for use in other sectors or find their way to the private pockets of individuals. It is sad. For instance, we have heard of the NMS and the act of none-service that it did to the people of the Nairobi City County. We would want to see the report that my"
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