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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Abdirahman",
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        "legal_name": "Abdirahman Ali Hassan",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for allowing me to contribute to this Motion. I want to begin by saying that just like my colleagues have done, I was a Member of the Committee and I am not going to congratulate the Committee because other colleagues who were not part of it have done it. I want to thank the Secretariat for their good work as we worked for the last few days. I want to begin by saying that the action of the Senate this afternoon is a demonstration of the fact that it is Parliament that is able to discharge its duties with justice, fairness and get rid of the notion that this is a place to witch-hunt Governors. This is a place to separate what is wrong from what is right. I think if we do not pick things as they are, we will still be having cases here. I have a feeling that the Report will help to guide county governments and particularly Governors to understand what the gaps are. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have not had so many cases being brought to the Senate, but probably they are on the way, but there is evidence in almost all the counties that there are issues that have either got to do with financial management, human resource management, public private partnerships which is an entirely new concept for many people; its operations, the framework under which such partnerships are expected to move and development planning and programming where most of us have expertise in only one area. Governors only have expertise in areas in which they trained. They have gaps and they really need to recruit people who understand all these areas that we are talking about. There is also knowledge gap in terms of humanitarian aid, responses and planning. Quite a number of counties have a problem in cohesion because Governors are not bringing on board all other elected leaders. If only this can be used as a learning process, I am sure counties will not have the problems that we are seeing. In the long-term, what we have done now as a Senate and what we did in the Embu case should help improve governance in this country. The fact that the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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