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    "id": 1198741,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "If you have improved on it, thank you very much. However, I am saying this because for example; when you go to this Committee, Members would like to pin down a governor. You find a governor wasted Kshs10 million on fueling vehicles. So, you waste time following that Kshs10 million and you do not go to projects worth Kshs100 of millions. The governor then he escapes. For instance, if the last Committee on Public Accounts had worked--- I am not saying they did not work. They did their best but because of the volume of work, they did not reach Kakamega County. They scratched. For ten years, a multimillion stadium has not come out of phase one and yet billions of shillings have been spent already. This Senate did not pronounce itself on it for five years. Madam Temporary Speaker, in Kakamega County, Mumias Hospital was being constructed using millions of shillings. It was eventually converted into a COVID-19 restriction centre but it is not operational. Shamakhubu Hospital in Shinyalu is not in use. The Kakamega Teaching and Referral Hospital was worth Kshs4.5 billion in ten years but it is not in use. You then come and tell me the function of the Senate is to oversight governors? We are failing. If we had such a group because of the volume of work, they would flag out these four projects in Kakamega County. The Governor would have been pinned down, so that he tells us why he owns all these multimillion properties in Nairobi City and even in South Africa. This should be the work of the Senate. This should be the work of the Senate. Given that we are in a world where a Minister in China was sentenced to death and he is serving a prison term, that is the route we should follow. We should make corruption completely unacceptable. It should be nothing personal."
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