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"content": "Distinguished Senators, you will go through all the six volumes that the County Assembly has brought before you and will not see any HANSARD or any resolution of the County Assembly to any of these two facts. Secondly, you will not see any letter by the Clerk or other official of Meru County Assembly transmitting a resolution of this nature from the Meru County Assembly. Distinguished Senators, how else can you describe this than a lie? Can there be another word in the dictionary of Englishmen and women that can describe this if not a lie? Ground No.1, paragraph four, illegally dismissing Dr. Ntoiti. By the way Senators, before I forget, Dr. Ntoiti is an employee of the County Government of Nairobi as we speak today and not Meru. He has been so since 2007. This is something that is going to emerge from these proceedings. Dr. Ntoiti, Paul Mwaki, Kenneth Kimathi, and Joseph Kithure Mberia, have never been dismissed from service. You will see from evidence, these were people on fixed term contracts, some of whom their contracts came to an end. Others among them discovered they had maneuvered and gotten their way to two Governments and they ran away by themselves. One of them is Dr. Ntoiti from the County Government of Nairobi. We will show you the correspondence from the County Government of Nairobi revealing this fact. Therefore, how else can you describe this? You will see that the Governor has not dismissed any of them as a matter of fact. Ground No.2, paragraph six, you will be told or you are told that the Governor deliberately and knowingly misled the public that “Kshs86 million” had been raised through Pay Bill No.247247, Account No.0400163917899. There will be no documentary, video or witness evidence showing that the Governor has ever mentioned this pay bill number or account number anywhere. It is a fact, we will prove by evidence. The leaders who have waged war against the Governor have collected money across multiple pay bill numbers such as the M-pesa platforms and cash accounts that have not been presented to this Senate. It is our submission, if the County Assembly has decided to make the money collected in relation to the unfortunate death of ‘Sniper’ an issue in this Senate, they must make a full and candid disclosure of how much money was collected across all these platforms. Ground No.3, paragraph eight, irregular payment of emergency call allowances to 161 medical doctors, using the wrong rates – As a matter of fact, the Governor is neither a salary processing nor a salary paying officer in the County Government of Meru. Nonetheless, two and more importantly, substantively, the emergency call allowance complained of here is expressly contained in the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) negotiated between the national Government, the Ministry of Health, and the Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists Dentists Union (KMPDU). The instructions were cascaded down from the Principal Secretary to the Council of Governors (CoG) and to all counties. No cent has been paid outside the figure set out in that CBA. Let me use the brief time I have here because the public is also listening to us, to make it clear to the doctors in Meru, that the County Government of Meru complied, hard-fought and negotiated the CBA. We all know in the public domain, some officials of KMPDU went to jail for some days in the course of these 2017 negotiations. However, the implementation is landing the Governor in problems. Ground No.3, paragraph nine, use of a manual payroll to pay personnel emoluments - The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services, Senate."
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