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    "id": 1198295,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Tabitha Keroche",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I also thank my senior, Sen. (Dr.) Oburu. Speaking after you have spoken, I will try to speak. The world over, the Senate is the “upper” House and controls strong veto power. According to the Senators who spoke before me today and yesterday, it seems like the first and the second governors and their teams in the county executive in some counties, used county resources like personal property. They did not have regard to the priorities of residents and there was little accountability. The devolution dream is under threat of failure in our counties because of lack of accountability. We cannot sit for five years and then start complaining. We are now the people to hold the governors accountable on behalf of the people who elected us, on the resources that we will get from here and take down to our counties. Madam Temporary Speaker, I had the privilege of being in the shoes of my former Senator who is now the Governor. We went round our county asking people whether they had seen any development. She kept telling the people that her work - which I believe is true - was to get funds down to the county and, thereafter, do the oversight. I am surprised to see we have the CPAC and the CPISFC. I believe that the previous Committees were ineffective. I have looked at the team that is in those Committees, and I believe they must now work differently from the previous committees. As Sen. (Prof.) Tom Ojienda put it, they have diverse skills. Some of us were elected based on the trust that people had in us, based on the leadership we had shown in the corporate world. While here, I believe our careers are on test. That means if CPAC and CPISFC do not work, when we get out of that door, we will have finished the career that we have built for the last 25 years or even more for others. Therefore, we are depending on CPAC and CPISFC. They must not let us down."
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