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"content": "Leadership must be coached with shame. A leader must have a conscience. A leader must have self-inspection. The Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Madzayo, has shown that he can lead by example. What is even more appealing to me is the fact that the Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Madzayo, has also surrendered his slot in the Committee of Labour and Social Welfare in response to my cry that Sen. Crystal Asige needs a slot in the Committee on Information, Communication and Technology. Madam Temporary Speaker, in summary, the Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Madzayo, has surrendered two committees and he is only a Member of two Committees. I hope that those who are in the leadership such as the Minority Whip and the Deputy Minority Whip will reconsider giving a slot to Sen. (Prof.) Ojienda in the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights. The Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Madzayo, has led by example. I hope that they will respond accordingly. Secondly, I want to congratulate the lucky Members who have been successful in getting slots in these three committees, and more particularly, the Committee of CPAC and the CPISFC. When I joined this Senate, I was told that one of the most difficult committees to join is the CPAIC. I came here with my Curriculum Vitae as a former Chairperson of EACC. With excitement, I told my colleagues that I am bringing the experience of fighting corruption from EACC. I was told that it is not easy. Today, I have never been successful to be a Member of that committee. That notwithstanding, I have full confidence in the ability of the Members who have been nominated to serve in those committees. I am sure they will do a good work and even much better than what we could have done. I wish them success. My appeal to the Members who have been privileged to join these committees is please assist the Senate in pushing the accountability card. Since inception, and if you listened to the address of His Excellency the President, we have sent close to Kshs3 trillion to the devolved units in the last ten years. However, when you go to the ground, you do not see the impact. Year in, year out, the Auditor General presents damning reports to this House on corruption, mismanagement and misuse of public funds that takes place at the counties. It is sad that ten years after devolution, not even a single governor has been convicted for a corruption offence in any court of law in the Republic of Kenya. It is sad. What is more saddening is the trend that we have seen in the past five days or so where corruption cases that had been filed against governors being withdrawn. This means that nobody will ever pay the ultimate price for corruption. It is sad. I could give you what the Auditor General has been reporting to this House. In one instance, he told this House that county governments have deliberately failed to bank locally collected revenue. In my County, for example, Nyamira, the projection of own source revenue, which is in the budget, is a collection of Kshs258,592,832. However, when he goes down to Nyamira, he finds that the county can only account for Kshs97"
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