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    "id": 1625174,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mariam Omar",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. I also support this report from the Standing Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations concerning a Petition on the branding of public projects with images of governors and Members of County Assemblies (MCAs) and branding of county vehicles. This issue of branding of the project is personalizing the public resources. The prayer of the petition is the amendment of the County Governments Act which talks about not branding county projects and the vehicles. I personally have seen duplication of the projects by different state corporations. There is a water project which has been done by three people. It was done by ADB, later on done by a Member of Parliament and later on done by again the state corporation Water Service Board. So, many projects are done in Kenya by different agencies. There are projects done by ADB, World Bank, UNICEF and none of them put their pictures or the flags of their governments or do branding on those projects. Why should the Member of Parliament, the MCA or the Governor put their images or brand the projects and yet these are Government or public resources? The brand the project showing that this is the project done by so and so and it has their picture. We should not allow that because this is a project which is beneficial to each person. If you put individual pictures there, it may give the impression that this project is meant for one community and another community in a different scenario or in a political line. Also, it helps in political campaign for individual political parties. On this issue of branding of the vehicle, the number plates of the Government vehicles are different from that of a private vehicle. If we restrict ourselves on the registration of the vehicle number, it is enough instead of putting individual picture of the Governor. As Senators, we have fought for devolution to work and devolution is working. I am also a Member of the Committee on Finance and Budget and we have fought with our chair that we raise the shareable figure to Kshs415 billion. If we have added the amount of money for them, then they should not personalize the projects they are doing. In this case, the EACC, the Auditor General and also Controller of Budget must collaborate to investigate on this so that the integrity and accountability of each office holders can be done, so that this branding cannot be done for the vehicles and for the projects. When it comes to this shareable figure of the equitable share, the governors are saying these are flagship projects for them. That shows that individual has personalized those projects and ended up putting their pictures and brands. 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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