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    "content": "They are intended to serve a personal ego and raise the non-existent status of a certain individual. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this is not the end of this story. We are soon going to deal with misapplication of funds. These are not going to be mistakes, but deliberate and intentional actions meant to serve certain purposes. Therefore, when we have an occasion like this, where we can deal with an issue, I think that we need to follow it to the final conclusion and correct it in the very early stage. In fact, as Senators, we have an opportunity here to actually put some of these things to rest by giving an example. We can use this example of Turkana to make it very categorical that we will take care of some of these deliberate errors that are put in by officers of the county. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have a lot of experience about these so-called errors. This does not apply only to the county governments. We have had experiences before where decimals have been moved and caused a lot of losses of money. One little deletion or insertion of a decimal could be worth Kshs10 billion. Therefore, we will not want to take some of these things as simple mistakes that we can ignore. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, wherever we will find mistakes committed by individuals at this very early stage, we would actually like to see that punitive action is taken against the individuals concerned. Since this involves money, I think that there should be some financial punitive action against the officers who have carried out this action. This is because we would want to cause deterrence here. We do not want this to happen again and, therefore, need to take certain deterrent actions. Therefore, we would want to have this very first report dealing with finances treated with a lot of scrutiny. Action should be taken firmly to serve as an example to other counties or any other mistakes that we will find committed by other counties. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, with those remarks, this Report is not sufficient for us to adopt it. We would like some further clarifications and details. Specific actions should be recommended in this Report before we can adopt it. Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir."
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