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    "id": 1198262,
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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": "governors to enrich themselves at the expense of the people who elected us and who had many dreams that devolution will change their lives. We must do something. I am, therefore, appealing to my colleagues who are serving in these committees to make an impact. This idea of telling us that EACC has forwarded a junior officer to sit in the committee as a liaison officer is not acceptable. We want a report to be given to us by EACC on the status of the corruption cases that have been filed in court against governors and senior officers serving in county governments. I do not know whether we can use Article 125 of the Constitution to have the CEO of EACC to appear before us the challenges he is facing in ensuring that in line with the EACC Act, prosecution of corruption cases is within a period of six months. They should be heard on a day today basis. Why are these cases pending for more that two years in our courts of law? Which are these cases that courts are giving priority more that the corruption cases facing our governors? These are the issues we need answers from EACC. You can imagine in Nyamira County we intended to have a stadium within the first two years of devolution after 2013. There was a budgetary allocation of Kshs62 million to construct a stadium. As I speak and I am sure Sen. Olekina has details of this issue, we have paid a contractor more than Kshs44 million. However, to date, we do not have a stadium. At least give credit to Gov. Mutua because Machakos County has a stadium. For us, we have paid Kshs44 million, but there is no stadium in Nyamira County. Madam Temporary Speaker, on the issue of MES equipment, we have paid a lot of money to the proprietors of this equipment."
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