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    "id": 1381395,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Thang’wa",
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    "content": "The Kiambu County Government owes the LAP Fund Kshs59 million. It owes the LAP Trust Kshs167 million. It owes the County Pension Fund (CPF) Kshs54.6 million. In total, the County Government of Kiambu is holding money for its workers that it has deducted from their salary, amounting to Kshs280.6 million. That is why, every day, every time, I keep saying on the Floor of this House that we need to change the way we do things. If we cannot hold governors to account, our people are suffering, and they will continue suffering. Can you imagine working for a county for 10 years, 20 years or 30 years, then you go home with nothing? When you go to the governor to ask for your money, you are given some chicken to go and rear or put them in your house as you wait for your money yet that money that he is dishing out can be given to these pension schemes so that people can get their dues. I would want to thank the Chairperson and the Members of the CPISFC because every governor of the 47 counties has appeared before this Committee to discuss issues to do with pension and water. That is why I call upon Mr. Speaker to also assist because there is need to rethink the reconstitution of some committees, because they are not performing as per the expectation and the mandate that they were given. I am going to mention the County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC). The Committee of CPAC is one of the committees that is making such things happen in the counties because they are not putting governors to task. Why am I saying so? My governor was supposed to appear before the CPAC on Monday next week, but he has already written a request for an extension, the seventh extension. Seventh! He is asking to come in June of this year. I am not saying that the Committee will give him that leeway. What I am saying is that, we need your intervention. How can a committee give one governor seven extensions because the governor is probably known to some Members of that committee or the Chairperson of that Committee? That is why I am saying that we should rethink of reconstituting such committees---"
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