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    "id": 1374159,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "There is a proposal in the report to separate the elections in the counties from the national polls. I was in Tanzania two weeks ago. They are expecting their county elections this year. All the electioneering processes within the counties, what they call municipalities in their place, are happening this year. Next year, they will have the National Assembly and Presidential elections. This is a good proposal so that we can be clear that there are two levels of government. There could be a clear distinction between which elections are taking place and the people on the ballot. I support that recommendation. There is a recommendation for the impeachment process of governors. In this report, only a little has been said on this issue. A lot has been said on other matters, but a lot has been left out regarding what we must do when governors misbehave. The Committee recommends that Parliament fast-tracks legislation to give a comprehensive guide to the impeachment process. I wish the Report had gone further. The Senate County Public Accounts Committee and administrative and security agencies must be given power. Even when we find governors who have misappropriated funds guilty, it takes a lot of time for action to be taken against them. We should have given powers to the committees to order on the spot that the governor should write a statement about missing billions. Governors come before committees and explain and then we allow them time to respond and return to their counties without satisfactory explanations. Nevertheless, investigative authorities should pay more attention to high profiles in cases. You will see the small fish being punished when issues happen in the counties. The rest are left. The governors who instigate all these misbehaviors are left to walk free. We have billionaires who are current or former governors. You cannot explain their wealth. We should have given a lot of thought to this issue. This little mention of what governors do means that some of our colleagues in the committee did not push on what needed to be done. We have seen governors come up in arms when we start to oversee their work in our counties. When Sen. Mungatana is here, passing legislation for Tana River County, they are clapping, enjoying, and telling us that we are doing a good job. When I indicate that they are stealing the money, they arrange demonstrations, state that we are imperfect, not supporting the governor, and even raise tribal issues. We want to state on the Floor of this House that we will not stop. The Oversight Fund that has been entrenched ---"
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