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    "id": 1516682,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Onyonka",
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        "legal_name": "Onyonka Richard Momoima",
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    "content": "Fund (NGAAF) and Women Enterprise Fund (WEF) but you must also legalize the Ward Fund and give Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) money for oversight. Since the law says that the role of a MP is to Oversight but you have given him the role of implementation, the Senate must also be given the role of implementation. Do not tell me that as a Senator, I should oversight the governor but the MP has no one to oversight him- because he is now the implementing officer. The NGAAF money is being utilized for the implementation of projects because the reality is that many people think that we need that money for whatever--- No, we were all elected. For example, I am elected together with the governor and the women representative of Kisii County. The governor has money which he is using to do projects in the county government. The Women Representative also has money which she is using at the county government. Why do I not have money as a Senator? We must interrogate these issues and be honest so that if we say get rid of NG- CDF, then we should give MPs money for oversighting projects which are done by the national government. If you want to keep the Senators, give us oversight funds which will make us oversight the governors. Figure out how you are going to organise oversighting by the Women Representatives, which will either be done by the MPs or by the Senator. These are the issues that many of us have been raising about why our system is broken. The reason why we say our system is broken is because we have too many sections. That is why Kenyans are actually very uncomfortable allowing more money to either be given to Senators, MPs, MCAs or Women Representatives. Kenyans do not want too many of our hands on this public money because we are irresponsible, unable to manage it or doing crazy things with it."
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