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    "id": 1516462,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Kamar",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity. I stand to support the list of Members that have been proposed for the SBC. These are Senators who are seasoned and have leadership qualities. We believe that the House will move very smoothly in the coming Session. I agree with Sen. Mungatana that a lot was done in the retreat. We need to pay attention to some of the decisions and strong suggestions that came up. The Auditor General, our wonderful lady, was present and gave us a lot of assurance that our CPISFC and CPAC are going to be very busy because she had over 1,000 reports to be tabled. The SBC needs to be very clear how we will do this as they retreat to come up with the Members of the different committees. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have been discussing for many years that we should be up to date with our audit reports. If that will take place, a suggestion came out very strongly in Naivasha that we ought to expand these committees, so that they work as subcommittees. That was said by Sen. Kajwang’. I do not know which side he is sitting. He is now sitting on the Majority side as a backbencher. It was very clear that the best approach would be to expand the committee and go into subcommittees. Let us break a record as a House that cleared the backlog of the Auditor-General's reports. Let us be bold. Let this SBC be bold and change things from the old system to a system that will make us deliver. I also encourage them to prioritise some of the Motions that came to this House that are very important. There was a Motion from the Senator for Kiambu County that will bring in the idea of free education. This House would have broken a record discussing that Motion, but we did not manage. We need to prioritise the Motions that will bring a change in this country. I also came up with another Motion touching on what the Controller of Budget (CoB) touched on in the Naivasha retreat and her own reports. We need to discuss how our governors can be stopped from implementing projects that do not belong to them, while they are messing up their own. In the Standing Committee on Education, we were very clear on that. We are talking to all the governors about how they have digressed from Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) to implementing bursaries. It should be very clear. What the national Government has done will not benefit the counties at all. If they will use some money that has not been allocated for bursaries to take care of bursaries, it means some of the functions that have been devolved will suffer. My Motion was trying to stop them unless they go for a negotiation that gives them extra money. Without that, they will do the same things they have been doing. We went to Machakos County to visit the ECDE facilities. They were in a pathetic situation. We went to Taita-Taveta and Kilifi counties and the situation is still 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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