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    "id": 1507211,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1507211/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13217,
        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "I think the reason Governor Ole Ntutu, flies around in a chopper is because he has not made roads. There are no roads and the only way he will fly around is by a chopper. I normally see him and the Senator driving at night, not because he wants to function at night, but because the roads are impassable and he gets stuck all the time. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) must do proper oversight. That is my request. We are doing the pension scheme and have given them financial autonomy. I want to warn the MCAs because I have been their champion. There is an unholy alliance that the governors and MCAs are doing nowadays. I do not know whether that disease is in Bomet County. However, it is in Nandi and Lamu Counties. The MCAs are going into unholy alliance and sleep in one bed. Can you imagine some MCAs are given contracts by the same governor? That will always affect the oversight. That is what we call conflict of interest. I have a number of MCAs who are transporters within the county government. For example, you will find that the transporter in Kaimosi Tea Estate Limited is an MCA. They are doing business with the county. In fact, when the Ad-Hoc Report came, most of the MCAs who objected it were mentioned as contractors. I associate myself with the incoming Chairman of the African Union (AU), the Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga, when he says it is very unfortunate that when a President goes to launch a project, the contractor is a Member of Parliament (MP). It will blind our oversight role. I ask Members of the National Assembly, as they are busy bashing the Senate, they should not be the contractors in some of these projects that we see. I do not know whether Bomet County has such a challenges where you find an MCA as a contractor. How will they oversight the governor? I appeal to the MCA to choose what they want to be. If someone wants to be a leader, let them be a leader and if one wants to be a contractor, let them be a contractor. However, if you want to be a Public Relations Officer (PRO) of a governor, resign from being an MCA and go and be a PRO at the county. I felt sad when I walked to a function in Nandi County and found an MCA speaking on projects that even the governor is not aware and praising the governor and doing a PR stance. This is done across all the other 46 counties. We can work concurrently with MCAs without conflict of interest. On the issue of pension scheme, as I have said, I want to thank the Senate Majority Leader for bringing this Bill. There is a small matter on the personal emolument, salaries, stipends and mileage allowances of MCAs. I thank the President profusely for appointing one of my voters from Kapkoros in Terik Ward to be the Chairperson of the Salaries and Renumeration Commission (SRC). I ask Members of the National Assembly to speedily approve the new SRC team. My message to the new SRC team is that they need to look at the salaries, emoluments, mileage allowances and welfare of MCAs across the country. I hope that our MCAs will do their job after we have given them financial autonomy, pension scheme, better salary, mileage, emoluments and welfare. It will be a mockery to this House if we have worked hard through the Senate Majority Leader to 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."
}