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    "id": 1443204,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mumma",
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    "content": "Why are the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) letters being peddled by politicians? How does the TSC issue employment letters? The TSC has been employing those who have been waiting for long before the ones who qualified recently. Could we have a public audit to find out how many people were politically-employed because they know politicians and those who are waiting because they are sons and daughters of poor people? We also need to audit our debt. All documents and agreements relating to our debt need to be made available to Parliament, so that Parliament can audit this. We also need to audit our debt expenditure. If we borrowed because of this, have we been doing it? I am suggesting that we get a special team to do this. I think the Offic of the Auditor General (OAG) and the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) needs to be facilitated and revamped to help us to do debt auditing. If we do this transparently so that it is made public and not hidden, then, the Kenyan people will be able to know what we are doing. Madam Temporary Speaker, we must audit all funds. We have so many funds that include the Youth Fund, the Women Fund and the NG-CDF. How are they being implemented? I think the idea behind the funds is good noble, but are they being used for purposes that they were intended for? We need to do an audit so that the ones that are being used for right purposes be retained while the others that are not being used for the right purposes are looked at. In 2020, the World Bank reported that we have dead infrastructure. They said that 50 per cent of NG-CDF projects are dead because when a new MP comes in, they do not want to touch what the other one had done. That is public money. We need to find out whether we need to put in place better structures for the management of CDF. When we come to Bunge . It must do its bit just like every other institution. The National Assembly together with the Senate have passed laws that are unconstitutional. I want us to do an audit of the cost that unconstitutional laws being challenged in court have cost the taxpayer because we did not do our job as Parliament. For instance, taking only 30 minutes to pass a law that allows the Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) be set against our children with no public participation and adequate time for MPs to discuss it. Madam Temporary Speaker, as Bunge, we must take responsibility for passing laws that have violated and circumvented the Constitution. I will speak to the people of Kenya as well. As we are speaking and everybody is taking responsibility, I would like for our people to also take responsibility. We queue to receive Kshs200 from politicians in funerals and elsewhere. We should start asking ourselves where we think this person got the money from and yet, they do not have even one industry or factory in your county where they employ anybody. He moves around in very sleek vehicles, dressed up well dishing out money and you just take it. Ask yourself; who in their right mind, can start dishing out money that they have worked hard for to build a business? What are we doing? That is the money that should be building your schools and making it possible for you to access health care being dished out to you. 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."
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