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    "content": "House to give me cooperation, so that I give you the report. I have reports showing how a Governor has bought a hotel in Nairobi; how a Governor has bought a house in Karen, we have reports showing how a Governor lives and sleeps in a bed which costs Kshs1.2 million; a bed which was sold to the county Government by his own daughter. I have reports which I am dying to table in this House where the Personal Assistant of a Governor collects between Kshs500,000 and Kshs900,000 every other day, to date, amounting to Kshs24 million. They are the same Governors, who then have offended the public. The public is offended with them and because they are standing in the image of our beloved President, he ends up receiving shoes when actually the anger is meant to be directed at that particular Governor. These people will make us lose law and order in our country. We must have a situation whereby public servants account for funds that they are entrusted with. This House must speak; otherwise there will be no need of me chairing that committee because I will do nothing. Even President Kibaki, calm as he was, protective as he was, even as Raila was there and the two of them were fighting over power, when I was Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, they gave me space; I had latitude to deliver. I am calling upon the President to give me latitude so that we stop the thieving of public funds. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it must concern Members of this House that when these Governors speak with arrogance, they have been traditionally doing it in the presence of the Deputy President and in some cases in the presence of the President. Where are they getting this confidence from? Today I am happy and I want to say good things about Senators because the sword must cut both ways. We must also ask our colleague Senators here who every weekend are in helicopters flying from one harambee to another harambee where they donate millions of shillings every weekend, where are these young men getting money from if they are not getting it from the public? It is serious! If we want to build a country called Kenya---"
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