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    "id": 1420680,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Abass",
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        "legal_name": "Abass Sheikh Mohamed",
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    "content": "people and the people who supply the cement. All these people are now stranded. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are huge pending bills. We want this House to help and work with the CoB so that at least this money is paid to the people with pending bills. Otherwise, as it is, there are people who have gone into depression, are crazy and hungry and whose children are not going to school. This is a disaster. We have no reason as to why we should have pending bill. There is no justification for pending bills. In my county, we had a sitting with the governor, suppliers and all the contractors. There was an agreement that we should pay the money. However, that does not happen because the budget is limited. However, we are still trying to negotiate with the suppliers to see how best we can pay the money. One other thing we have discovered is that many of the contracts awarded and claims made, cannot be verified. There are no documentations. Some of them are missing and even fictitious. So, it becomes difficult for us to solve this problem. As the Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations, I am ashamed. Every time I go to a county, the contractors come to me and say, the Senate is not working nor giving us support. It is high time this Senate woke up and supported the public so that people can get their money. I suggest we stop all the monies for the counties until the pending bills are paid. Otherwise, as it is, people are running bankrupt and robbed in the country. If the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has failed, or they are overwhelmed because of the job they are doing, then we can use other institutions like the DCI to take over these things and come up with a list of the criminals who are stealing public money. So far, we have only seen only one governor that has been taken to court and charged, yet money is looted on a daily basis. When the Auditor-General gives his report, he says there is money that has not been accounted for, but no action has been taken. It is now time for this House, since we are responsible for oversighting the counties, to woke up and supported the institutions that are doing the oversight, like the EACC, DCIs and all others, so that this menace of corruption can to come to an end. 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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