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    "content": "The person who saved the Turkana County Assembly and not only the county government, but also our Senate, is the Speaker of the County Assembly. That Speaker has given us a job and food for thought. We should know, all the time, that things can just happen. Therefore, the only way to protect the person who disclosed this matter to our Speaker and the Controller of Budget is the person we should make sure we do not put his political vision into jeopardy. The only thing we should do is to take back this report. The report should not be accepted by this House until we know who did what. This was not in the moon. How can we be expected to say “yes” and ask to do a, b, c and (d) without asking questions? Put yourself in the shoes of a County Assembly Member of Turkana, the Speaker and think about the matter that was reported to the Senate through the Controller of Budget. That is wrong and we need to protect the person who reported this. I am not saying that the governor is wrong, because I have no evidence at all. Maybe even the governor is not aware, but here, the insinuation is that the governor may have been involved. We need to know the facts. Was the governor aware and who did what? We can only do that if we can give our Standing Committee another chance, within a week, to come back and tell us whether this matter was reported to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) or they have established somebody who did something. This is because my conscience will not be clear if I just stand here to say that maybe the governor or somebody did this or that, and yet, I have the authority to have this matter investigated. So, I need this matter to be investigated before we just say amen about this Motion. This will teach our Committee Chairs and Members a lesson; that you are not just going to report to your colleagues. When you are the Chairman, you are in charge of the Committee and responsible to this House. Therefore, you have to behave like an appointee of this honourable House. We are not going to allow a matter to be treated this way. This is because even the governor himself, the county assembly members and the county executive members will wonder what kind of Senate this is. They will wonder if the report was presented and the Senate just accepted it with no facts. I think that we will be doing injustice to ourselves. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, therefore, I would like to oppose this Motion, and request the honourable House to get the truth. Let us get the facts of the matter. If an offence was committed, let us know who committed it. After that, we can decide to forget it or forgive him. Let us establish the facts, but not just to pass things blindly because they come from the Chairman of the Committee."
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