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"content": "Thank you. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, be so. He has informed you after informing me. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, having congratulated the Committee for flagging out and resolving the issue of fixed assets, there is something I want to say about fixed assets. Mr. Chairman, try and put further pressure to the leadership of our county assemblies. We want to see the fixed asset called, “the debate chamber” in all our 47 counties. If you go to Kilifi or Mandera and quite a number of other county assemblies, for example, they have put up modern debate chambers, which is a good fixed asset. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there is no justification why despite having these billions of shillings, county assemblies in certain counties have not constructed chambers? It is very annoying that there is no fixed asset called, “the debate chamber” in the County Assembly of Kakamega. If you were to visit, you would be shocked that the building they are debating from is the same building that was constructed in the 1930s by the colonialists, when they were practicing governance in Kakamega. It is a ramshackle and is a useless thing. We must put pressure under the County Government of Kakamega to construct a modern chamber. There are other matters that were flagged out by the committee, including budget control and performance and I am glad that these issues have been resolved. Having spoken to these issues, I will conclude by speaking to two other issues. The first is the OAG. We should never fail to congratulate them because without them, we cannot be where we are. They are our main resource team that gives us quality reports that we use to put these governors, speakers and clerks to account. There should be no excuses because, today, the OAG is properly resourced, they have even put up regional hubs and we expect them to work. If because of devolution, they have a challenge of staff, they must come to us, as Parliament, so that we give them more money. This is because without these audit reports, governance can never succeed. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, last but not least is the EACC. Time has now come for the EACC. The CPAC has been sending them reports, asking them to take action and we have seen nothing. The EACC cannot start pretending that it wants to supervise how we do legislation here. They are even telling and misleading the country that we were involved in a piece of legislation here that watered down their oversight role or their work. This is a lie; total lies. We expect them to work. If they do not work and choose to engage in politics, the way I saw them running after the distinguished Senator for Marsabit, because if they have problems with the Senator for Marsabit, they should not call the media. There is a channel to use as the EACC. It does not conduct its business through the media. It should have been the media reporting that EACC was found either at the office of the Senator for Marsabit or at his home, that they had found he had stolen money and they were dealing with him. However, for them to call a press conference and start cat- 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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