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    "id": 1456881,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "I agree with the rules and algorithm that they established because county executives take 80 per cent, if not 90 per cent, of county budgets. Sometimes we go for Pareto's principle, “go for the area where you are going to have the biggest impact.” However, along the way, we realized that a lot of the corruption and bad governance is condoned by weak county assemblies. If there is corruption in the county assembly, there is no way they will manage corruption at the county executive level. Therefore, the committee took an interest in the financial statements of county assemblies. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am happy to report that today, which is again interestingly, Kakamega County Assembly is the only county assembly that is up to date in consideration of the reports of the OAG. I congratulate the Chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), hon. Mahelo and the entire membership. They have been with us every time we are holding these meetings. They have built the capacity to be able to look into these reports. We just want them to look at them objectively and not with the Governor, Speaker or Clerk, in mind. That is one success story that I have seen. However, even though they are considering the reports, it does not mean that there is no corruption and financial mismanagement in those entities. I encourage most of the other county assemblies to be up to date. If Kakamega County Assembly can do it, then the rest of the county assemblies can do it. The reports before us cover West Pokot County Assembly, which is a complete mess. Sometimes, the Senate seconds staff to go and manage county assemblies as clerks. For the period under consideration, the Clerk of West Pokot County Assembly was a staff of the Senate who had been seconded there. He was not the best ambassador of the Senate, because if you look at the report of the Auditor-General, for the formative years of West Pokot County Assembly, they were not the best. We are working hard to encourage and empower them to clean up the messes so that they are able to oversight the many stalled projects in West Pokot County Executive. The other Assembly, whose reports I have laid today, is Isiolo County Assembly. Three months ago, the Senate went to Isiolo County to carry out oversight of projects. We were to be hosted by the Isiolo County Assembly. However, the Speaker, Clerk and all the Members of County Assembly (MCAs) of Isiolo County Assembly disappeared. 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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