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    "content": "The summary of the findings in the charges is that the Special Committee has found three out of five charges to have been substantiated. Namely; the Governor of Embu, Martin Nyaga Wambora violated the Public Procurement and Disposal Act, 2005 and Regulations 2003. As you make the decision, please proceed to the audit report by none other than the Auditor-General of the Republic of Kenya who gave evidence and confirmed violation by violation. On cross examination, the Auditor-General also convinced the Committee that the attempt by the Governor to shift blame to subordinates could not hold even if those subordinates were the accounting officers, because finally, the buck not only stops at the doorstep of the Governor, but the Constitution expects the Governor to be alive to the running of the county and to ensure that he has systems in place that monitor those accounting officers to his satisfaction. This is something which the Governor said: I do not know, it was not me, I did not have to know. Then we wondered why he is in that office. Mr. Speaker, Sir, for that reason, this House will be helping Governor Martin Nyaga Wambora by saving him the trouble and pain of having to be in a office where he has no idea what is going on. This office will give him high blood pressure and ulcers for nothing. Instead you will be giving him preventive treatment. We proved that he violated the Public Finance Management Act and the Constitution of Kenya. Violating the Constitution of Kenya is not a small thing. Hon. Members will remember how each and every one of us, right from the President to the Senators, Governors, their deputies, Members of Parliament, Members of the County Assemblies and all the public officers take oath; one hand holding the Bible if you are a Christian or the Koran if you are a Muslim and the other hand placed on the Constitution of Kenya. Here is a Governor who does not care a hoot about the hand he placed on his own Constitution. This is a man who was tried in theology but cannot remember that he held the Bible and while the other hand touched the Constitution and goes on to visit on the people of Embu this kind of violation. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it will bother the people of the Republic of Kenya that in his findings, the Auditor-General found that the Governor asked the Registrar of Motor Vehicles to register a public vehicle in civilian number plates. We thought it was for security reasons, but when the Auditor-General went and asked for the log book of that public vehicle, a Toyota Prado worth Kshs12.9 million, they refused to give him the log book. This means that they did not want him to establish that that log book could be in the name of somebody other than the county government. This is a Governor, when he was challenged why he gave seed maize to farmers worth a whopping Kshs3.5 million, he said that Kshs3.5 million is little money that he does not normally bother about whereas Members of Parliament who control the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) make use of Kshs3.5 million to move lives in their constituencies. The CDF was John the Baptist if I could quote Sen. Kajwang. We had though that devolved funds would be Jesus Christ of Nazareth, but it looks like John the Baptist in the name of CDF is doing better in the hands of Members of Parliament The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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