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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "the letter, but not in the spirit of the Constitution, of how Parliament and National Assembly have been used interchangeably. Perhaps it was the works of an over- enthusiastic draftsman, or somebody cheekily did that to spite this House, and we cannot be the ones that agree to that kind of error and say that a house of equal importance in bicameral legislation can take leadership from the other house. I do not agree with that, but the rest of the things that have been said are what makes this house a house of debate. It is good, and it was nice to see Members debate and engage on issues. I appreciate that, whether pro or against. You know the work of opposition is not easy. Sometimes you have to come and do certain things just for the cameras. I did that for the last five years in the last term of Parliament, and we were used to it. Then, Sen. Mwaruma would frown at me because he said that I was delaying Government business. Government business must continue. Today, things change and in the future, you never know what will happen because that is the essence of politics. However, I want to appreciate that, further down the line, many Members have agreed with us that we need to prioritize a lot of business before this House. The state of resource use in our counties will trouble every Senator. We have to wait for some dubious institutions such as Infotrak, Wekeza, some funny institutions that have no history of doing professional work that can be judged by the truth of time to establish whether their work is professional or otherwise, to give us the ranking of the performance of governors and county governments. This is a dereliction of duty on the part of the Senate. This House must come up with mechanisms upon which--- the template and the tools for measuring the performance of a county government. We cannot continue to sit here as intellectuals and just be happy to see people post. We know how many of these findings are procured; that if you pay, then you can be ranked to be on top. You do not need to be a genius to know governors' performance. If, for example, Governor George Natembeya was performing as well as that opinion poll wants to show us, then he would be making news for the things that he is doing in Trans Nzoia and not for the insults that he is spewing. I have a particular problem with leaders and governors who are known more for their political jabs than their performance at the county level, including respected leaders like Senior Counsel James Orengo. If, as a county governor, the only thing people read about you is what you have said about what is happening nationally. Still, nothing about industries in your county or how you have increased Own-Source Revenue, then there is a problem in your county. This House needs to legislate the ways and means of measuring performance in county governments, and those tools are there. There are things that we can check. How have you, as a governor, increased Own-Source Revenue from the time that you came in? How have you reduced the deficit in terms of fiscal expenditure between recurrent expenditure and what you spend on development? What is your corruption index? How have you reduced pending bills? Are you accruing more or less? Indeed, Sen. Eddy, are those difficult things that you at the Budget and Finance Committee cannot lead this house into establishing so that we have to resign to some 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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