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    "id": 1198699,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I am among the Senators who are very keen to make comments about the Committees that we are putting together as a House. If you look at Article 92 of the Constitution, the legislative authority of the Republic is derived from the people and more importantly, it is vested in Parliament. There is no any embodiment of this authority that is more powerful than the Committees that we are passing here today. This is because these three Committees look at the resources that go to counties under Article 203 of the Constitution. Therefore, my comments today will be two. First, the Senate Majority Leader has talked about the limitations that we have under the function of oversight. I have seen that the ladies and gentlemen who were elected to this House have serious experiences, interest and backgrounds. Therefore, I urge the House and Members of those particular Committees to be more adventurers and bring out the spirit of entrepreneur and critical thinking in terms of running these Committees. If you look at Standing Order No.193 that talks about County Public Accounts Committee, sometimes people are limited to just making sure that counties look at the functions of these Committee with regards to Article 226 and 227 of the Constitution on basic financial and ordinary audit of finances that are going to the counties. However, we can advance further and be creative in this Committees and look at things like social audit. Are these monies going to the counties having serious impact beyond just the idea of following typical financial audits? That means that we must go"
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