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"content": "I want to thank President Ruto because when he visited Nandi in 2018, he gave Kshs50 million. The Governor and the County Government were to fund more for the Chepterwai Sub-County. That has never happened. That money was given by President Ruto when he was the Deputy President. Madam Temporary Speaker, even in the Kapsengere Dispensary, the President gave us Kshs20 milllion, which has been used so far and the county has given nothing. When you go to Kobujoi Sub-County Hospital, it is stalled and the President gave us Kshs50 million. The County Government has never given this project any money. The Mother and Baby Unit in Kapsabet Referral Hospital is also stalled. Kabiyet Dairies is being funded by the World Bank and other international donors in Kabiyet, Mosop Sub County, is stalled. We must demand accountability because we struggle. At times, we are told that the Senate is a talkshop, but we must see value for money. Madam Temporary Speaker, the greatest achievement that Governor Sang’ has achieved in close to seven years is only buying jembe sticks and helmets for criminals in order to harass people in broad daylight in Kapsabet. I am disappointed with the police and I challenge the Acting Inspector of Police (IG), Masengeli, to act on those criminals. Three people were injured on that day. One of the young people, Japhet Sangere, lost a motor bike near the showground when those goons harassed him and stole from him. That was robbery with violence. Three people are nursing wounds after being attacked by the same criminals. The police watched as people walked around with jembe sticks, crude weapons and helmets harassing pregnant mothers, young people, the disabled and good business people of Kapsabet. In fact, all businesses were closed in Kapsabet because people became worried after seeing criminals and goons walking around with those weapons. However, if you go to Kapsabet Hospital today, there are no drugs. Even Panadol is not there. You go to dispensaries such as Kabiyet, Chepterwai, Kobujai, Maraba, Setek, Kapsengere or the Mosoriot Sub County hospital, there are no drugs on the shelves yet the Governor has the audacity to buy jembe sticks and helmets. Where is the EACC and the DCI on this issue? I also call upon the speakers of county assemblies. I saw the Speaker for Isiolo County trying to harass my Chairperson, Sen. M. Kajwang’. After we cooled him, we frog-marched him out of our meeting because he was behaving in a manner likely to suggest--- Madam Temporary Speaker, when we visited Isiolo County to audit them, the Speaker ran away and closed the construction site and yet the other day when we questioned him, he was daring the Chairperson of the County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC). That is why I am saying we should borrow a leaf from them. We are proud of Kakamega County Assembly. Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale is here, and I am told that he is nursing ambitions of becoming the governor. Kakamega County Assembly is doing extremely well and it is one of the assemblies we must emulate. I challenge other county assemblies, including your County Assembly of Murang’a, to rise up to the occasion to ensure that their books are good. That is the future we want. I am cognizant of the fact that we have a new Cabinet in place and I join Sen. Ledama Olekina in saying that our work is to do oversight to ensure value for what we do here."
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