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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "In fact, I look at Senators as being like chairpersons of boards and Governors as Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) or secretaries of boards, just as it was designed in the Sen. Sang Bill, which unfortunately never saw the light of day. As an oversight representative of your people, it is your duty to look at the numbers. You need to be slightly different from the people that you represent. In the ordinary scheme of things, the people that you represent in this House--- Sen. (Prof.) Tom Odhiambo Ojienda, SC, may not have the sophistry of mathematics to understand the County Revenue Fund (CRF) balances in the Treasury for Kisumu County, what is expected, the shareable revenue, how much has gone to development and the recurrent expenditure. As a Senator, they gave you a platform to represent them in this House, so that you take time to study the books of accounts of your county and take to task your governor and Members of the County Assembly (MCAs). As I speak, there are MCAs from Kakamega County in this House this afternoon. Unfortunately, not a single county government is in compliance with Section 25 of the regulations, in terms of how much you need to spend on development. All of them have passed the 65 per cent ceiling. Many counties are spending a lot. Some are even in excess of 80 per cent. If as a county, you spend 80 per cent of your funds on recurrent expenditure, then you are actually functionally insolvent. You need to be wound up and sent back to Nairobi, because as a county, it is clear that you cannot run your affairs. We are duty bound to send governors back to the drawing board and demand from them that within a particular period--- I had challenged Sen. Ali Roba – I do not know if he is in this House since I cannot see him – to move us by way of a resolution of this House, to demand for redundancy plan from each of our 47 governors and how many years it is going to take them before they achieve the 65:35 principle, that is expected in the regulations of devolved units. I do not intend to be long. I am just giving a justification as to why these Senators need that particular time away from the Chamber, so that they spend time looking at the operations of their counties. Mr. Speaker, Sir, with those many remarks, I request Sen. (Prof.) Tom Odhiambo Ojienda, SC, my good neighbour from Kisumu County, to second this Motion. I thank you."
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