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    "id": 1624977,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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    "content": "represent can allow me because in this House, we legislate, oversight and represent. That is the duty of a Member of Parliament. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, can you imagine if this Petition had found its way into a County Assembly, for example? There was no way they would agree to because they themselves are the abusers of these provisions. If you drive around Nairobi or your counties, you will find a big billboard declaring that the project has been done by the MCA in collaboration with the governor or the Member of Parliament. Senator Kisang’ gave reference about school buses. In fact, I have seen a more absurd one. There is a school from Western Kenya and Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale is not here, that I saw that had the picture of the MP behind in the rear screen. It was written that the patron is as an example, Senator Chute, Aaron Cheruiyot or someone. I do not think that is expected. I hope that upon the passage of this Report, it will be remembered in history that there used to be an abuse of public funds until the Senate put a stop to it. This is a very important report. I congratulate you, Sen. Abass, together with all the Members that serve with you in the Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations. This is what Parliament should be doing, responding to the concerns of citizens and ensuring that we oversight. This is now oversight at its best where we notice violations of law and push for enforcement. I saw that they interviewed almost all the parties that are involved in this petition. They invited the Petitioner, Mr. Laban, listened to him and had petitions from other citizens. Mr. Deputy Speaker Sir, it is my hope that Members can stay around and speak to this Motion, so that we vote on it today and begin counting 30 days from now. Sen. Abbas, I expect that your Committee next week, in your first order of business, fire a letter to the EACC; confirm that you have written to them and have reminded them that they are sleeping on their job; that they need to remind us to be public servants. They need to remind us where there are violations on the provisions of our Constitution and where there is abuse of office and misuse of public resources because that is what it is. There is no other better way to call this particular issue. I congratulate this Committee. I hope that they take time to ensure that this is done. Sen. Abbas or any member of this Committee, in 30 days after today, you will rise on a point of order one day to remind us that EACC has published a notice in prominent display, both in electronic and print media, that this habit needs to stop. If there are those that are emboldened or carved on stone or whatever, they need to be scrapped, so that citizens appreciate that these are public funds that has been used. The only project that will be allowed to bear the name of a prominent person, is if one runs their Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) or private initiative or uses their own funds to do something for the public. I believe even the public will actually name it after you and have your picture prominently placed. So long as you are using public funds, it will never be allowed. With those very many remarks, I beg to support and thank the members of the Committee for a stellar performance. Congratulations, Sen. Abbas and the team that considered this Petition. 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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