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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "mechanism to ensure that this money collected will not form another stream for governors to steal, governors will start celebrating as soon as this money hits their accounts. I am speaking, having the honors of coming from a county that has been rated by Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) as the one leading in corruption in the county. It is so shameful that a county that has produced distinguished Kenyans, including retired Chief Justice of the Republic and the Controller of Budget, has that distinction of being rated as the leading county in corruption. Madam Temporary Speaker, unless we put in place mechanisms that will ensure that this money is used for the benefit of the locals, Sen. Cheruiyot, this will just be another way of creating an efficient way of making easy money available to governors. I pray that the Committee that will retreat to go further into the details, will look at the mechanism of ensuring that once this money is collected from hard working Kenyans, it comes back to benefit them. Just the other day, the County Government of Nyamira increased the daily rates for mama mboga from Kshs30 to Kshs50. It was also a tussle to increase the boda boda rates from Kshs10 to Kshs20 per day. These are Kenyans who are hustling and make almost USD2 a day to fend for their families. Then, you find that somebody has the audacity and courage to again steal from such class of Kenyans. In fact, just to add on to what Sen. Cheruiyot was saying, you collect money, but do not provide even the basic services. In Keroka, our second largest town in Nyamira, we have been without toilets in our market for the last two years. A tender that was given four years ago to build toilets has not been completed to date. We also have the distinction as being among the six counties whose audited accounts have moved from being qualified to adverse. You know, one of the factors contributing is just impunity. Some of the queries the Auditor General (AG) is raising include there is circular from Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) that has given a guideline that a governor should not buy an official car that is more than 3000cc. However, my Governor has defied the AG for the last two financial years and has continued to drive a V8 of 4600CC. It is just sheer impunity. It is like saying, “utado?” Now, we have moved to a level where the AG is saying that they will mark this as a county that needs to move from qualified to adverse. On bursaries, money that is supposed to assist needy children and orphans; the AG is saying, you cannot withdraw money and then purport to say you are moving around schools giving Kshs3,000, instead of transferring that money direct to schools. We had a sitting last week with the Committee chaired by Sen. Osotsi and in some instances, money is sent to a school with no names. One mzee was even crying that the name of his child appears as having benefited, but that child never benefited. Those are the kind of criminal acts that we have at our counties. The tragedy is this; EACC can issue a report telling us that Nyamira is the leading county in corruption, but there is not even a single case of anybody from that county facing corruption charges in any court of law. There has not been any seizure of assets. If The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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