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    "id": 1505535,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Dullo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Dullo Fatuma Adan",
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    "content": "simply because of supporting a certain position as far as the Third Generation Formula is concerned. According to what I see in my county, it is like Kenyans do not know the role of Senators. When you carry out your oversight role, people ask what you have put on the table as far as development is concerned and why you have not given them bursaries, yet we sit in this House and fight with the national Government, the National Assembly, and the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) to make sure that counties get budget allocation. The Senate needs to do a lot of sensitisation as far as our role is concerned because many people in the counties seem to not understand why they elected their Senators. I support this Motion with a heavy heart because of the kind of practice that I see not just in my county, but also in this House. We push for money which governors refuse accountability. They do not want to be held accountable, yet when money is delayed, they are the ones who shout at the top of their voices that there is no money and, therefore, they cannot run their activities. However, when they get the money, they do not even carry out those activities. I am really wondering why the Senate is there. We have a rogue governor in our county who has refused to appear before certain committees of the House. That governor refuses to honour summonses. He cherry-picks which committee to appear before and which he should not. He has taken two committees of the House to court to refuse accountability. One may wonder because he is the one who shouts in the county that he has not received the budget. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, apart from the Senate, we have institutions that are supposed to hold governors accountable, but they are not doing what they are required to do by law. As far as the Governor of Isiolo is concerned, we need direction from your Chair because there is no way he can appear before the Committee on National Cohesion, Equal Opportunity and Regional Integration and refuse to appear before the Committee on Health and take them to court. That is an abuse of this particular House. He can appear before a certain committee and disparage other committees. When he appeared before the Committee on National Cohesion, Equal Opportunity and Regional Integration, he praised the committee and said it was the best committee of this House. That means that the rest are not committees that he should appear before. If I may talk about health, most of our hospitals do not have drugs completely. There is a morgue in my county that has not been working for the past two years. When I bring a Statement to the Floor of the House, it goes to the committee, but the governor refuses to appear or honour summonses. When a warrant of arrest is issued, he rushes to court to block it. Where are Kenyans going to go when such things happen? We must have a solution to it. We cannot just sit here and pass budgets then people refuse accountability. We must hold some of our colleagues accountable because some of them are entertaining rogue governors. When they abuse Senators, they are abusing the whole Senate and not just individuals. Look at our roads; there are no roads. The other day in my county, people were unable to bury the dead because roads are not passable. Counties do not have qualified individuals who can supervise and monitor roads. Money is dished out to politically- The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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