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    "id": 1462721,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orwoba",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, protect me from Sen. Ledama and Sen. M. Kajwang’, who are distracting me with the noise. I can barely hear myself speaking. Madam Temporary Speaker, last night, I was going through an analysis of Migori County where Kshs2 billion was misappropriated. Until today, we cannot get back that money. Apparently, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has gone into some sort of agreement so that they can get 10 per cent back and then let go of the alleged person who has misappropriated the funds. We have to tell ourselves the truth, which is that we no longer live at the times when we would come here to fight and say you cannot reduce budgets of the counties. Until today, some counties keep on receiving supplementary budgets because they are marginalised or that they need more money for more roads. However, counties like where Sen. Chute comes from cannot even tell us what they are doing with their supplementary budgets. When a proposal comes from the National Assembly that we are living in the times where we do not have this money, we need to cut back. Less than five per cent is what is being proposed. When my colleagues stand to say that we will go to court, where will we get money from after going to court? We are the same people who stood here after the invasion of Parliament and congratulated the Gen Zs for reminding us that we must live within our means. The same people are standing here to become popular and being sensational with this particular Bill to say no, we must send more monies to counties. I beg that my time is preserved. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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