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    "id": 1493009,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "I do not agree with the notion that the senators are idle or do not have enough work. The role of overseeing the county governments definitely gives them a lot of work. I wonder how they even wake up at 5.00 a.m. or 4.00 a.m. to spend all their day hopping from one television station to another talking about things that do not even affect the counties. There are no medicines in the county hospitals. The entire health system is not working. There are no agricultural practices that are taking place. The county governments do not support agriculture. Feeder roads in the counties are impassable. In order to accommodate Early Childhood Development (ECD) in the country, the boys and girls have to partition the classrooms that are built by the National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF). There is so much to be done in the counties in terms of oversight. Issues of cess and duplication in taxation need to be addressed. The Report of the Auditor-General, which flags out corruption matters, show that the county governments are currently leading in loss of public funds. This problem is no longer limited to the national level. How would you explain a scenario where 90 per cent of taxes that are collected by county governments go to payment of salaries and other emoluments? The county governments have now become employment bureaus rather than service delivery centres. The senators have abdicated their duty of overseeing the county governments, and they have the audacity of encroaching on matters that do not concern them. If the senators have not read the Constitution to understand that they are the lower house, the best thing for them to do is to resign from the Senate and seeking ways of getting elected to the National Assembly so that they can enjoy the powers that the Constitution has given to the National Assembly. Finally, this is a call upon our Hon. Speaker, being the Chairman of the PSC, and to the Clerks of the two Houses, to sit down and resolve this matter before we seek other ways of embarrassing each other so that the public can see who are the fools among the membership of the two Houses."
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