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    "id": 1456905,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "situation. Maybe in Machakos or Nyamira, the story is different. However, in silent tones, the MCAs have been telling us the reason they do this is so that they do not get denied funds for their locations by County Executive Committee Members (CECM) for Finance of the respective counties. When we give financial autonomy to MCAs, they will be able to oversight. The history of this Parliament stated that our accounts were with the Office of the President. Therefore, it meant if you criticized the Government, you did not get your pay. We want to mirror what we are doing in Parliament to the county assemblies. Although constitutionally, and maybe the Commissioner will mention this in his presentation later if he will contribute, in Parliament, we have had situations where the Secretary to Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) has been watered down. There is an office called Chief Accounting Officer (CAO) or Accounting Officer, somewhere in between provided under the Secretary, who is the Clerk of the Senate, Mr. Jeremiah Nyegenye. That person undermines and has more money. I will be bringing a substantive statement. Why was that office created, yet the Secretary to the PSC is the Clerk of the Senate? Some cartels or individuals who are hell-bent to undermine the work of the Senate made sure they introduced another extra office in between the Accounting Officer, who should be the Secretary to the Commission, Mr. Jeremiah Nyegenye. As a Parliament, we must take a position on it. I want to challenge our Commission representatives. I asked them sometimes back and they told us that they we are few in the PSC. You should bring it back to the people. Go back to the people; they should bring it back to Parliament. When we raised issues about the functionality and capacity of Parliament, some of us were told to write some silent letters and whisper to powers that be, that we have a problem with the lifts or we have a problem with the aeration in our rooms. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, our Chairman normally struggles to breath in Committee Room No.8 in the New Wing because there is totally no aeration in the room. We were together with you in the Standing Committee on Health and you saw our witnesses cramped up in a corner. God forbid, if COVID-19 pandemic was to come back with the small spaces that we are talking about, it would be very unfortunate. The other day we saw the invasion of Parliament. I am told they have used close to Kshs100 million to do the repairs. However, when you see the quality works of the seats, I highly doubt it. I sat on one seat in the restaurant and I almost collapsed. We should be putting up a perimeter wall."
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