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    "content": "the subject of investigations of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC). He advised that it would, therefore, be prudent to await the outcome of the investigation so as to verify whether the procurement process was contrary to the law. Can you hear that, Mr. Speaker, Sir? We are giving him an opportunity to make that clarification so that when the EACC chooses to use our proceedings as part of their working documents, they could get a ready answer, but he refuses. He tells us: “You wait until the EACC has done its work.” Who told him that we can only wait for another organ under the Constitution before we make our decision? Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to remind this House that unlike the EACC, we derive our responsibility from the sovereign power of the people of Kenya. Therefore, when we speak, the people of Kenya have spoken. When the people of Kenya speak, the big ones – like Governor Wambora – have spoken; and the small ones – like the ones whose children have jiggers in Kenyan constituencies – have also spoken. The people whose families are so poor that they have jiggers and those who are so stinking rich in this country and take their children to school using helicopters, are all equal in the eyes of God because they are all children of God. Because those children have nowhere else to go and the processes of litigation are full of bullish acts, the straight strike is through their elected representatives, coupled by the nominated Members who were elected on the same ticket, and those people are found in the County Assembly of Embu which has spoken. These people are found in the Senate of the Republic of Kenya. Mr. Speaker, sir, on the allegation of insufficient funds, the Governor stated in his response that the Kshs8 million was an amount provided for in the budget. However, the Embu County Executive Committee (CEC) had decided to allocate additional funds required in the 2013/2014 Supplementary Budget. The Governor further stated that the Kshs8 million budgeted for appropriating on the stadium is yet to be spent to date. There are no documents to support his allegations. He did not convince us by, maybe, showing us a bank statement or money and the minutes of the CEC, to prove that it was not his personal decision. There was the issue of the special county secretary and we shall be demonstrating later on in the proceedings that she had a unique relationship with the Governor. This relationship is so unique that when the people’s assembly of Embu said that this woman should step aside and be investigated, the Governor found time to respond appropriately. Time seemed to have lacked in these proceedings. In his response, the Governor set out to mislead the EACC and even mislead the courts by, under his own hand, swearing an affidavit that was meant to let this woman off the hook. How I wish that some of these women in high places knew how the women in the rural areas wake up at 4.00 a.m., walking kilometres upon kilometres to get water for their children to drink. Some of these women have to go to the neighbourhood to borrow a matchstick so as to light a fire to make porridge. In Luhya language we call it lidaka ; the one that does not have sugar in it at all. They make this porridge so that their children can lick something before they go to school. This is not a laughing matter; it is almost a crime against humanity. 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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