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    "id": 1517803,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "admirer of Donald Trump. Donald Trump would call you, a great guy, meaning that you are really impressive. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this is the route we are walking. I go to the countryside and see people in yellow buses being taken to the county headquarters. When you ask, who are these people? They tell you they are being dropped for public participation at the headquarters. It is being done at Isolio grounds in Shinyalu, Lumakanda grounds in Lugari, or Nangili in Likuyani constituency. When the people go there, the guy coming to invite them for public participation, is himself one of the busybodies around the governor. You hear what they are saying and you cannot believe it. At the very worst in some of the cases, you will find that people have been brought in from Ainabkoi, Kericho County to come and do public participation or the county government has gone to Ainabkoi. When they go there, the people who make contributions are the people from the governor's office. These ones who are just supposed to do a make-believe. I really support this provision. The provision in Clause 8 on the functions of the unit, which are tabulated here, are truly innovative. I support it because they form the basis for realizing the reason why many Bills in this House, and in the National Assembly, have been challenged in court once they have been tried in law because the reason has always been there was no public participation. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this provision in Clause 8 is the backbone to public participation in law-making which takes me to Clause 9. Clause 9, is the question of funding of civic education. It provides that a county government shall ensure that part of the county government's annual budget is allocated towards funding of civic education activities in the county. This is critical because it is going to stop the millions of shillings that would otherwise go to development in counties that is lost through public participation which is currently in vogue. I, therefore, hope that as we pass this into law, the regulations that will accompany this new Act will dissect it further so that we provide for this kind of activity this much in quantum terms should be spent and so on and so forth. Having said that, I cannot end without speaking to; the issue of corruption. The corruption that I have in mind is that in the absence of this provision, as I have said earlier on, there is a lot of wastage where public funds are corruptly assumed to have been given to people who participated in civic education seminars and so on when actually it is not the case. We are on the homestretch of the 13th Parliament, and this Senate, must keenly listen to what the accountability institutions are saying. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is only recent that the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) reported that the rate of corruption is so high in the counties that up to Kshs16 billion was lost to ghost workers. The report goes further to shame those counties where the rate is highest at 100 per cent. In the list of shame with 100 per cent rate of corruption are the following counties. Leading in the list of shame is Nyamira, 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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