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    "id": 484917,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ichung’wah",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support this Bill, but, of course, with all reservations because of the changes that were made by the other House. I also want to be quick to point out that nobody in this House or even the Senate has any ill-feelings against our very good governors. We were all elected by Kenyans in order to deliver services to them. With regard to what the Member of Parliament for Homa Bay County had said that Members are demonizing governors, I want to be clear that none of us is demonizing any governor. All that Senate and the National Assembly have been emphasizing is that the governors be accountable to the people who elected them. Accountability is not a choice; it is something that they must do. The resources that have been vested in the county governments are not for governors to spend as they wish. They must be accountable to the people who they represent. When Senators demand that governors be accountable, the Senators are only doing that on behalf of the people that they represent. Even we demand accountability from our governors we only do so as representatives of the people. Therefore, nobody should imagine that we are demonizing our good governors. One other thing that has been peddled by a number of Members from the other side – it has been said here and also in funerals – is that the Jubilee Government is lying to Kenyans when we talk of 43 per cent of the last audited accounts. That is what the law says. I want to challenge our colleagues who have been preaching this in funerals and public barazas that if you want Kenyans to believe you in your fight to have a referendum, and if you want Kenyans to have the 45 per cent--- Like the Leader of the Majority Party said, we have no problem Kenyans getting that 45 per cent at the devolved units, which are the wards and constituencies. In fact, 20 per cent could go to the county governments to pay salaries and other things. However, we are all aware that audited accounts from the Auditor-General’s Office have been tabled in this House, including audited accounts for 2012/2013 which were tabled sometime this year by hon. A.B. Duale. The Chair of the PAC who is a member of the Coalition that is lying to Kenyans and misleading Kenyans---"
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