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    "content": "run to the office of the chairman of the council to be given handouts. Therefore, they will stop oversighting. They must have their own independent budget. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I would like to draw your attention to page 12 under the general warrant. The Controller of Budget confirms that the budget was not subjected to approval of the county assembly. The Office of the Governor awarded itself Kshs376 million and went further to award the deputy governor, who is an officer within the office of the governor, another whopping Kshs110 million. I was the chairman for Public Accounts Committee (PAC) for five years and I can tell you that this is where you are going to find foolish expenditures like entertainment, buying of flowers in the office and so on. This is the money that these guys pocket. We must stamp our authority. Let me annoy you further. When you look at that warrant, they are saying that they are allocating Kshs26.3 million to a dubious committee called Lodwar Town Management Committee. Which one is this? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, on the same page, they are saying that they are allocating Kshs34 million to Nairobi Liaison Committee. So that the Members of this House can realise the depth of this corruption, you remember that a whole Committee of the Senate and that of the National Assembly has a budget of Kshs16 million for the whole year, so how can a small office here in Nairobi with a secretary and an office messenger, have a budget of Kshs34 million? By the way, even if they deserve that money, what is the Governor of Turkana coming to do in Nairobi and yet we want him to sit in Turkana and come to terms with the challenges of the people of Turkana? I want to support this amendment and hope that one day in this country we will have men and women who will refuse to go to their graves and leave their children with money which they got from public coffers; men and women who will find honour in living a decent life. By the way, all these money people are scrambling for, do they want to spend these billions in the second life? If it is in the current life, the money I have that affords me six beers in the evening is far much more than I need. Why should you steal all these millions? I beg to support."
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