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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "This is because we have allowed them. We have allowed county governments to spend in excess of 75 per cent on recurrent. That is the money that is being wasted. Therefore, I expect when each of our committees begins to file their reports, Sen. Ali Roba, within the next quarter that you are considering, make a demand when the Council of Governors (COG) appears before you. Let them place a recovery plan and let us know that there is a unique problem in a particular county. Let me give the example of my own county. Kericho used to be the municipality headquarters that now serves two counties. Therefore, many of the staff that used to serve in the municipalities that were in Kericho and Bomet were left in our county. Therefore, you will find that their wage bill is slightly higher. I believe there are many such challenges in various other counties. I think Mombasa is one such county. I know that from what I used to see when they presented their books while I was serving in the Budget and Finance Committee. However, it is not the same for all 47 counties. Why are counties, some of whom we are building headquarters for, having more than 75 per cent of their budget going to recurrent, yet they do not have this challenge? We know for a fact that the biggest headache is on personnel emolument. Who are these that they are paying? What is it that they are expending on many of these other charges to the county revenue account? Therefore, those are the demands that we are making of our committees; that come and file with us live issues. Sen. Cherarkey spoke of something that is going on. A debate is ongoing in our country on the cost of electricity. When you read the Report from the Committee on Energy, it is about ‘we considered this Petition, Senator so and so brought a question and there is this Bill that we are considering.’ Well and good, but I believe leadership is about going over and above the call of duty. We want to hear about the Report. Sen. Wamatinga knows that we have had these discussions so many times and we have demanded of him that he reveals who are these Independent Power Producers (IPP) owners. The owners are so powerful that they sell only 30 per cent of the power that we consume."
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