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    "content": "As I listened to the Chairperson of the Committee on Public Accounts and Investments reading out the allegations against my county and nine invitations which have been issued, it left me as the Senator in a very compromised situation. However, I want to take this opportunity to say to the people of my county that, indeed, the window is not closed. There is hope and a remedy if the county government, especially the Governor, county executive member in charge of finance and the county assembly, will urgently and expeditiously move to make sure that they comply to come and answer to the audit queries which have been raised by the Auditor General. I am sure when the other allocations for the rest of the country is being disbursed, the allocations for my county will also be released. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is also important for us, as a House, to clear and inform the governors that, indeed, when they are invited to appear before this House or the Committees of this House, they are invited in their capacities as public servants and not in their private capacities. So, the issue of maybe asserting authority or ego does not arise. They need to appear here, as they said to the people when they got elected and promised to serve them. It is also imperative on this House to make sure that we send a clear message that politics must be divorced absolutely from the management of the resources and leadership of the county. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is more important that politics are divorced from the management of the resources and leadership of the county. I pose a tricky question to this House which we must deal with urgently. When we went for the last elections, most of the citizens of this country were asking whether it would serve us right to elect governors from the political class. This is still the question that is arising. The role that is given to our governors is purely managerial. Mr. Speaker, Sir, It is a CEO’s role to manage the resources of the county. That is why they have been given a county assembly to deal with legislative issues. Unless, in their attitude and approach, they clear this in their minds, this may continue to be an uphill task even for the people who pay taxes. I want to decry the suffering of the people of Kiambu and the entire country as of now who will not receive their allocations as required in good time. I, as the Senator, will endeavour to ensure that is done in a hurry. When the Auditor-General---"
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