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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Thang’wa",
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    "content": "investments in the counties. The Standing Committees are also allowed to invite governors and ask them questions on the running of county affairs. Some governors are unable to honour such invitations. Once they are invited, the Committee may want to issue summons. We have issued summons when some governors have refused to appear before the Committee. I am speaking about the governors because they are the most notorious people who decline the invitations or the summons by Senate Committees. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are amending the law that provided a fine of Kshs500,000 if governors fails to appear before a committee of Senate. This is pocket change to some governors. I agree with my colleagues a fine of Kshs2 million is little. I recommend that in the amendment, we should have a fine of not less than Kshs2 million, but not more that Kshs10 million. This is so that the committee can have enough time to evaluate the governors that they have been inviting and their excuses. A good example is the Governor of Isiolo County. He is out there trying to malign the name of this good Senate. He says he cannot come even if he is invited. What do you do to such a governor? You give him the heaviest fine ever so that he understands that this is the Senate of Kenya, the one and only."
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