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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orwoba",
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    "content": "We cannot stand here and ask questions to the governors who have been given the powers, resources and funds. We do not direct the questions to them. I would like to know as a resident of both Kisii and Nairobi City County, why we are swimming in Nairobi yet we pay the highest taxes. Nairobi is a county that collects the highest OSR. However, when these questions are being tabled, we are now going back to say, it is the President. Where is Governor Sakaja? We need to know or is he also stuck somewhere in the floods? We want to know whether he is using the roads that we are using to come to Parliament. Perhaps he is forever in a chopper. I also want to direct these questions that we are directing to the national Government to the Senators in this House because they each come from a county. We have 47 delegations. Let them stand and tell us, for instance, in Machakos County, my governor has done A, B, C and D. Since, they are also receiving disaster management funds. The other question that we are not asking is that they are always wanting funds. Do they have the capacity to deal with resiliency plans? Do they even have resiliency plans? We have been given a tool by the national Government through the Ministry of Interior and National Administration called the Kenya Initial Rapid Assessment (KIRA). This tool is supposed to give capacity to county governments to be able to anticipate and deal with disasters. Yesterday, I heard some of the county officials in Nairobi City County on a television station talking about their plans for disaster management. They were not referencing tools or resiliency plan. Therefore, we cannot keep pushing for money when we cannot even ask the hard questions of where it is going to? Madam Temporary Speaker, the only question I want to ask specifically to Governor Sakaja, how difficult is it to clear the drainages on our roads? How expensive is it because you cannot have Ole Dume, all the areas of Kilimani and Kileleshwa flooding? Where is the money going to? Let us ask the difficult question and let us hold the people responsible, particularly the governors because this is a devolved function. I thank you."
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