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    "id": 1408731,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1408731/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Gataya Mo Fire",
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    "content": "I admire what the Senator of Garissa County just stated that this House should bestow itself without responsibility or make sure that we try to rate our governors and their performance. We do not want to have some elements of Infrotrack or any other organization for that matter trying to gauge the performance of governors. It is this House that is charged with the responsibility of making sure that we rank our governors as per performance and those who are putting public money prudently. It is high time that once we devolve the money, we sometimes become mortacious because money has been squandered, money has been eaten, people have looted a lot of money all the way, and maybe after two or three years, that report will find its way to this House. It is the right time that we make sure that we are hands-on, to make sure that whatever we devolve to our counties and our governors is used prudently for the interests of those people that it is supposed to serve. I have seen many of us, even in the previous regime, come here and lament about what governors are doing, but once one becomes a governor, either from the Senate or the National Assembly, the trend is just the same. It is high time we stopped this hypocrisy and make sure that we manage what we normally say, because maybe in the next two, or three years to come, some of us here will be governors down in the respective counties. We expect a shift from the norm, where people are squandering citizens’ money and services are not rendered. It is the right time that we must practice what we preach. I support."
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