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    "id": 1443071,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Dullo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Dullo Fatuma Adan",
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    "content": "When the current Government leadership or the Executive came into office, I visited several offices to find out the kind of projects that would be implemented in my county. I went to a certain office and I was told that the project in this area is 100 per cent complete. I asked the Principal Secretaries (PSs) or the Cabinet Secretary whether they were serious when saying that this project is 100 per cent complete. I was there the other day. Imagine a project that is 40 per cent done is 100 per cent complete at a Government office. In certain instances, the projects are not even there. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we need to look at the way we are carrying out ourselves and even on sharing the national cake. Those at the national level need to go down and see what is happening or how those projects are being implemented and how they are benefiting the communities that are intended to be supported. Let me come back to this House. I have been around for a while. I was in the first and the second Senate. However, with the current happenings, we must call a spade a spade. You can bring a statement to this House and it will take six months for a committee to look at it and give you feedback. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you can imagine that I am even confronted in certain committees. Is it relevant for you to bring this statement to this committee? I am being challenged in the committee when the Speaker on the Floor of the House has referred a statement to them. A Member of a committee or secretariat calls my county to ask the governor, “what is wrong with your Senator, she is always bringing statements to our committee?” When we correct others, we should also correct ourselves. There are many problems within our committees. Things are not done properly. I can enumerate committees where I have challenges in my counties. Up to now, nobody has responded to those statements. I do not want to embarrass the committees that have statements before them. Imagine sometimes you are sent the response and nobody bothers on how to deal with that particular statement. I wish we could go back to where we started in the first Senate where responses for those statements were brought back to the House so that everybody could listen and understand them and even asked further questions. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as we point fingers at other individuals or institutions, we also have challenges here and we must correct ourselves. Going back to the counties, I have sat in the committees of the House since 2013. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when talking of the national Government, we should also talk about county governments. When the budget we fight for here goes to the county, nobody wants you to talk about it. Nobody says that Senators fought for this budget, so we should listen to them. Nobody understands that the role of Senators is not to carry out development, but to oversight. That has to be made clear because we are bashed by governors and Members of National Assembly. I have brought this road. I have done ABCD. What has a Senator done for you? Those are the issues we need to ask ourselves. How will we be felt as Senators? I have seen people from yesterday's debate bashing the Senate, that it should be scrapped. We have had those debates, but we must make a reality why we exist as a Senate. I sit in the County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC) where you would see that all the counties have gone above the 30 per cent ceiling of employment. Every governor comes in and recruits 200, 300 or 1,000 employees and nobody is questioning. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
}