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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Kamar",
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    "content": "My second point has to do with oversight, which is accelerating very well in this House. Committees have gone out to deal with oversight. I have been approached by a member, somebody from Isiolo County. He told me, “talk to your friend. Why is your friend trying to get the Governor to appear before very many committees in the House?” That is not the job of Sen. Dullo. It is the job of the chairpersons of the various committees. I told the same person, the messenger of whoever sent him to me, that it is not about Sen. Dullo, it is about the oversight role of the various committees. No Member, in this House can incite committees to question in a particular way. In fact, when we are dealing with governors, the host Senator appears as a friend of the committee because it is not just about the Governor of Isiolo County. There is this belief by governors that whenever they are invited to come before committees, they do so because the host Senator has said so. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, what I want say is on record and this can be found from the recordings of our Committee on Education. At one point, I was chairing our Committee on Education and a Governor came before us and said that he wants it to be very clear that he will never answer any question from his Senator. Fortunately or unfortunately, he spoke before I said anything. That is a record in this House. How can a governor come and dictate to a committee that they do not want their host Senators to talk? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we went viral on that one because I also responded. I said, listen to what you have told us before you repeat it, because I want you to repeat what you have said. He could not repeat it because he knew I was going to tell him that he either leaves or the Senator be given a chance. It was unbelievable to us, as a committee. We looked at him in shock because we did not know what transpired between him and his Senator, but it was very clear that he did not want the Senator to say anything. The Committee on Education will bring and update after 15th. This will be in our report when we bring the report of the governors that we have engaged."
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