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    "id": 1375775,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Veronica Maina",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I was citing Article 96(3) that enjoins the Senate not only to determine the allocation, but also to oversight how revenue is utilised by county governments. When it comes to the oversight role, governors and other officials working for the Government must understand it. If the oversight role is used as a critical tool in our systems and governance mechanism, it can stamp out rampant corruption that has become a menace in our nation. The oversight role enjoins a governor, any State Officer or accounting officer who is summoned to appear before a committee of the Senate to answer questions on how utilisation of resources was done during their tenure. Sometimes I wonder whether the problem we have in our nation is because of the qualifications of leaders that we send to offices, whether they understand the constitutional stipulations or the mandate placed in their hands, and whether they occupy offices not having fully understood what they are required to do during their tenure. It defeats logic that resources are placed under a leader who is brought into office by people to lead a whole county, yet when called to account for those resources, they are hesitant or refuse to obey summonses. Ironically, they wake up the following morning and go to the same offices they have refused to account for. It defeats logic, the stipulation of the Constitution and it is the highest level of impunity."
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