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    "id": 1516647,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "Anybody who speaks against any governor, the next thing you hear, they are hired goons to fight Senators. We are out of the Finance and Budget Committee. I am also out as a Senator. We are going to confront these governors regardless of the money that they have in this country. We cannot have a country where people loot from public property, projects and public coffers and then use the same money to go and confuse our people to start fighting among themselves. The people they are giving Kshs500 to fight who are overseeing and abusing us on Facebook and social media are the same people, when you go to their villages, there is no water. When you go to their villages, people are running out of Panadol when they have got very good medical care. I urge this Committee to go and strongly work on those reports by the County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC), Committee on Finance and Budget and by County Public Investments and Special Funds Committee (CPISF). This Committee must bring those reports to this House. If there is a need to go to somewhere like Migori County where we cannot track a number of projects, I can tell you, I have data and those reports are with the Committee. We need to dispense those reports in this House and make sure that we can even form special committees together with our partners. We have got very strong partners in this house. We have the Ethics and Anticorruption Commission (EACC), the Office of the Auditor General (OAG), the Inspector General (IG) of Police, and we have the Controller of Budget (CoB). Let all these partners go to Migori and Isiolo and look at the projects that have been cleared in billions. Go also to Murang’a, Kisii and Mombasa and look at those projects. Go to Kisii, and look at those projects. If we do not do that and tighten the issue of oversight in this country, we would be facing demagogues and hegemons in the name of governors who have become comfortable that they can loot public property and public money and Senators will do nothing. The reports of the Senators are the most critical thing that we must work on. As I finish, there is a question that has come here. I urge you not to take it lightly. Just go, retreat, and make a proper pronouncement on the judgment that was shared by the Court. When you look at Article 107(2) of the Constitution which gives you the power to preside over us, says that – “At a joint sitting of the Houses of Parliament, the Speaker of the National Assembly shall preside, assisted by the Speaker of the Senate.” When you go further to Article 108, it says- “(1) There shall be a leader of the majority party and a leader of the minority party. (2) The leader of the majority party shall be the person who is the Leader in the National Assembly of the largest party or coalition of Parties. (3) The leader of the minority party shall be the person who is the Leader in the National Assembly of the second-largest party or coalition of parties. (4) The following order of precedence shall be observed in the National Assembly- (a) The Speaker of the National Assembly; ( b ) The leader of the majority party; and, 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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