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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Gataya Mo Fire",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I support the Motion by the Senator of Isiolo. I have been around for the last close to two years now. I serve in various committees, including being the Chairperson of the Committee on Delegated Legislation in the Senate I have observed with a lot of dismay that there is purported and imagined overrated rivalry between governors and Senators for no apparent reason. Oversight is a constitutional obligation. For that matter, Sen. Dullo is not pursuing her interests; she is doing what is exactly enshrined in the Constitution. The rivalry is not between the governor and the Senator. The rivalry is between what the Constitution dictates. The governor has to obey the summonses and the invitation from various Senate committees. I have observed that several people who have served as Members of National Assembly, Senators and Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) are very defiant and rogue when it comes to appearing before the Senate committees. I do not know for what reasons. I think it is important for us, as a House, to make some very serious regulations on that matter. We need to tame these governors. Sadly, even some of us are making a lot of lamentations in this House today, tomorrow you will become a governor. I will not be surprised to see that quite a number of us who might be governor’s tomorrow might follow the same path. When invited to these committees, they will just defy because they know so-and-so who has been their colleague maybe in the previous regime, is the chairperson of that committee. So, let us not run away from making sure these things are individual. It is about the Constitution. The governor for Isiolo County must be compelled to make sure that he appears in every committee in this House. We have a committee known as the National Cohesion and Integration Committee chaired by the Senator of Marsabit, Sen. Chute. I remember that we have in the file, several invitations for the governor of Isiolo County, which have not been observed. He has defied all those invitations. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is important to stamp our authority over these invitations so that we do not dilute the essence and best interests of devolution and the interests of our people in our relevant counties. I support."
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