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    "id": 1462406,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13162,
        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "The Auditor General generates a lot of reports, but many of them can be summarised into probably 20 issues. We brought the first Fiduciary Risks Report to this House, and amongst the recommendations that were adopted by the House was, all contributions that were made to the COG were nugatory, illegal, and, therefore, the CEOs should be surcharged for that contribution. What did the Council of Governors do? They set up a fund to take the Senate to court. I am glad that along the way they found that it was a futile move and stopped that pursuit, even though they did not refund the counties the money that had been put in that fund. The Senate cannot be struggling to go into mediation to propose Kshs400 billion and consider whether we should reduce allocations to county governments or not, only for the county governments to use the resources coming from the Senate for litigation against the Senate on matters that are neither here nor there, like whether governors should appear before the Senate or not. That notwithstanding, I still feel that we need to decouple the Intergovernmental Relations Agency and the COG. Ideally, the powerful institution ought to have been the Intergovernmental Relations Agency. At our last meeting with that entity when in Eldoret with the Liaison Committee, I put it to the Chair of the IGRTC that they have been subdued and outshone by the COG. Indeed, if you look at the strict interpretation of the Intergovernmental Relations Act, they should have been the ones providing secretariat and administrative support to the COG. However, we are where we are. I agree with the spirit that the IGRTC should be independent, separate and have clear terms of reference. Whether we name it Intergovernmental Relations Agency or Intergovernmental Relations Technical Committee or Intergovernmental Relations Commission arose by any other name, smells just as good. The nomenclature is neither here nor there. What is important is that they need to have clearly delineated functions that will not overlap with those of the COG. I support that you need to allow the governors to organise themselves. The COG is supposed to be funded from the consolidated fund. That has been our beef in the County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC). When we say that contributions to COG by county governments is irregular, it is based in law, because the law says that their expenses shall be drawn from the Consolidated Fund. The audit of those expenses---"
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