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    "id": 1198260,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "million which is 38 per cent of own source revenue. This means that a whooping Kshs160,711,000 disappears into the pockets of some people at the county government. It is a shame. As this happens, our counties have no drugs. The projects that were meant to have been completed in the first five years of devolution remain incomplete up to date. We are one of those few counties that eleven years after devolution is yet to complete the construction of the county assembly headquarters. Nyamira County has never completed the construction of the Doctors Plaza. We do not have offices for consultants yet we are stealing from the poor people of Nyamira a tune of Kshs160 million every year. As I speak today, nobody has been arraigned in a court of law. Madam Temporary Speaker, the distinguished Senators who are going to be Members of this committee should please make a difference. We do not want them to write the Book of Lamentations. We want to see action. The Constitution has given us powers similar to that of the High Court of Kenya in Article 125 of the Constitution of Kenya. We want to thank the Judiciary and more so the Supreme Court. We sat here for five years in the last Parliament and were unable to bring to the Floor of this House the Governor of Murang’a County, Hon. Mwangi wa Iria. He kept flashing a court order at us telling us that the courts had told him that he cannot be summoned by the Senate. Now the highest court of the land, the Supreme Court, and whose decision is binding on all of us, including governors who have just been elected, has affirmed with finality that this Senate has powers to summon governors. I hope Members of these committees; CPAC and CPISFC can one time convene a Committee of the Whole and have governors answer questions in here. We have governors from our respective counties answering questions here because that is the main reason Article 96 of the Constitution says Senators are there to protect counties and the people who reside in counties. The job is cut out for the 18 of you. We really must ensure that it is not a ritual of us sending money to counties and the money ends up in the pockets of governors. When it comes to this House, we create another forum where we are “clearing and forwarding” governors. We need to see consequences for those who steal public resources. Madam Temporary Speaker, on the issue of automation, most of our country governments have never automated revenue collection. If you read the reports that have been written by the previous committees, on several occasions the Committee has made recommendations to various county governments that they should automate their reports. Even as I speak today, giving an example of Nyamira County, collection of locally generated revenue is still manual. The issue that was being raised by Sen. Cherarkey about revenue from our national reserves being verbal is the same problem that the Senator for Narok County will tell you. There is no automation. Therefore, we have created a very easy ground for"
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