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    "content": "can go home with and say; yes, they were heard. If they were charged guilty, they will still say that they were heard fairly. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as we move in this direction, I want to encourage my colleagues that we should avoid carrying this debate beyond the Chamber so that we are not seen to prejudice what we are going to do. The Committee will be the agent of this House and each and every one of us should sit down and wait for our agents to go and bring back the product that we expect upon which we will vote. Some of the challenges facing Governors today are of their own making. Sometimes, you hear things that border on the bizarre. When a Governor, without any curl of right in law and, in fact, elects his wife in the county as the first lady and opens an office for her and spends public money, that is wrong. There are many of them doing this. This message has to be sent to them. You will feel embarrassed going to a function and you hear a Governor standing up say; “the first lady is here.” The “first” lady then stands up and says; “my office has established and funded this and that and will work hand in hand with the office of the Governor--.” These kinds of excesses are irritating and amount to improper use of public funds. In fact, they amount to theft of public funds. The amount of time we spend here to fight for resources to go to counties makes us expect nothing less than accountability from our Governors. Wherever such situations arise, we must do our work fairly. As I end, I want to encourage the Committee because they will sit immediately after this to elect a good Chairman, Vice Chairman and work as a team so that at the end of the day, the annals of history – I want to congratulate Lenny Kivuti for finding his Speaker who had disappeared or vanished. We hope that his health is okay and that nothing dangerous will happen to him. The Committee must work as a team. We have enough researchers who can help them in matters of law, facts and accountancy expertise. I heard the Senate Majority Leader heap praises on my brother, Billow Kerrow. We expect a lot of industry from his expertise. He should tell us yes, there was wrong doing or there was no wrong doing and we move on. Finally, I want to encourage my brothers and sisters across the Floor, as we protect Governors, devolution and the entire system of devolution, please, gentlemen and gentlewomen in Jubilee, we want to urge you to stop derailing devolution through irrelevant activities like strengthening provincial administration. These are things that will cause Governors to feel jittery, undermined and under siege."
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