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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was very busy with the proceedings of our Committee and, therefore, I will be excused if I was not alive to the sort of quorum in the National Assembly when this matter was being deliberated on. But be that as it may, I stand guided. Mr. Speaker, Sir, while we were on recess, we have had a very pleasant experience which my Committee would like to share with this House. Following the Motion that sounded punitive by this House against the County Governments of Murang’a, Kiambu, Kisumu and Bomet, the Governor of Murang’a, has since appeared before our Committee and he has almost adequately responded to the issues that led to the kind of steps that we took. We were even trying to explore – the Deputy Speaker and me – whether there was a way in which we could expedite this report to this House so that this House could acknowledge the olive branch that has been given out by the Government of Murang’a so as to consider how we can lift that particular punitive action. But that will come at its right time. I want to use this opportunity to congratulate Governor Mwangi wa Iria for honoring and respecting this Senate. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would also like to report to the House that the Governor for Kisumu, Governor Ranguma, has also made a personal communication with me and he is requesting that we expedite. He would like to come and respond to the audit queries. So, it seems to be working very well and those Members who might think that our Governors have remained headstrong, this is to the contrary. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Chairman of the Council of Governors also invited me for a breakfast meeting. He wanted to find out what it is that we can agree, as Senators and Governors, so as for them to vacate the court process that they have gone for in respect of these summons. So, all is well, and I hope that as we take this money to the county governments, it will be put to good use. Mr. Speaker, Sir, my final contribution is on the new clause that we added, that is, Clause 2A which read:- “Pursuant to Article 201 and Article 213 of the Constitution and notwithstanding Section 2, the Commission on Revenue Allocation shall recommend to the Senate the budgetary ceilings on the recurrent expenditures of each county government.” We all supported this particular new clause as a House. This idea of ceilings being included here was preceded by a Motion that we debated in this House, which was introduced by Sen. Murkomen, Sen. Elachi and Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki. They all were 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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