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"speaker_name": "South Mugirango, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Silvanus Osoro",
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"content": "With the meagre resources that the Members of this House oversee, we do not give Ksh1,000 to students. Members of the National Assembly oversee NG-CDF committees, but they do not give Ksh1,000 or Ksh2,000. We do not even shout about it. We need to discuss this matter before we discuss the next agenda in the Order Paper. The Council of Governors has taken Members of Parliament to court over roads maintained through the Road Maintenance Levy Fund (RMLF). On the other hand, they claim they want everything that we handle here reverted to them. What is that? I am on record having said in this House that Kenyans can see our actions across the country despite the meagre resources that we get through the NG-CDF. All of us can will see. However, you need a ‘microscope’ to identify what a county governor does on the ground. You will need ‘lenses’ that are stronger than what you are wearing, Hon. Speaker, to identify what the county governors do on the ground other than hiring goons and paying crowds to attend their functions. That is a universal practice amongst county governors. They move around with paid-up teams that do not change. Sometimes they even forget to change their clothes. They move from one ward to another and sit in front in public functions with only one job - to cheer the governors as they speak in order to portray their artificial popularity. The other day a governor was found with a large sum of money in his house. I would have helped many students with bursaries in my constituency if I were given Ksh12 million. Why would a county governor keep in his house Ksh12 million in cash and another big amount in US Dollars? What does he do with such money? When he was caught, he incited his paid-up goons and the normal cheering squad to move around Kenyatta Avenue to shout that it is personal vendetta. If you are a thief, you are a thief. Face it. Face it. If you have stolen, wewe ni mwizi."
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