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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "are doing? It is important for us to be involved with what is happening on the countryside. Madam Temporary Speaker, I would like to also speak to Clause 10. Clause 10 talks about criminalization of serious or persistent non-compliance by the officers who are obligated to carry out certain duties. When I am talking about this, specifically I am on to the officers in the National Treasury. Nobody has ever been charged under these sections, yet we know many times there has been persistent and serious violations or delays when it comes to transferring funds from the National Treasury to our County Revenue Funds. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is so sad that we pass law, but when it comes to executing these laws, it is just another story. It is not taken seriously. It pains me because just the other day, two days ago, there was a big headline that our sister House, the National Assembly Committee of Education, discovered from the Auditor-General that Kshs3.7 billion had been lost to ghost allocations, over a period of four years. The news is gone, because in Kenya it is a 24-hour cycle. Today people are excited, tomorrow they forget about it. Then what? There is no Minister who has been fired or a Principal Secretary (PS) who has been called to account. Nothing is happening. When it comes to financial issues, it is like even when we have put Clause 10 here to criminalize bad or gross or persistent violations of the provisions by officers in the National Treasury, nothing happens. We have seen it in the National Assembly that nothing happens. Madam Temporary Speaker, even when we come here in the Senate Public Accounts Committee, where we have even the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) sitting in our Senate Public Accounts Committee, even our Chairman saying in other jurisdictions, you, Mr. Governor, should not have left these pressings, you would be going down to jail or to answer charges, with EACC sitting there, there is not even a bother to take a statement. Nothing happens. This is the attitude that Kenyans are getting used to when it comes to financial matters. No wonder, it has become a culture now that people aspire into Government offices, not so that they can help our Kenyan population---"
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