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    "content": "to the effect that our MCAs not just in Makueni, but across the country are abusing public funds through foreign travel and sitting allowances. It is the Senate which must put this to an end. Allow me from my region on this particular score to congratulate Governor Sospeter Ojamoong of Busia County, Governor Khaemba of Trans Nzoia County and Governor Moses Akaranga of Vihiga County. In fact, it is Vihiga and Isiolo counties which spent least on paying for allowances to MCAs. We should congratulate them because they have done a good thing. Madam Temporary Speaker, if you go to a county called Bungoma where the Senate Minority Leader comes from, Governor Lusaka, my own brother former Permanent Secretary, is listed together with Governor Oparanya of Kakamega County as the ones who have now taken hostage of MCAs. The Senate Chief Whip was in a function where the spokesperson of the Speakers, Dr. Nuh made a presentation and said that they give them a little budget within their entitlement as county assemblies and then they keep another hidden line of expenditure on the side of the executive so that when the Speaker says that you will not travel, the Governor then takes these MCAs to accompany him to go for whatever trips, in the process exposing the Speaker to possible Motion of impeachment. We, as a Senate, should protect the Speakers, now that we have put there ceilings. I want to thank the industry of Sen. Elachi, Sen. Sang, Sen. Murkomen and Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., who are coming up with an amendment Bill that will cushion our Speakers. Everybody must feel secure in whatever position that the Constitution gives them. Madam Temporary Speaker, in Kakamega County, at the end of every four weeks, they spend Kshs11,718,900. This is shared amongst themselves. An MCA brings a receipt saying that he or she went to place “x”, ate ugali in place “y” and so on and so forth. Today there has been a very big joke in the County Assembly of Kakamega. The MCAs are so pissed off with what I am saying because I have already put that report to the ground. They are saying that they have no confidence in me as the Senator for Kakamega County. I want to tell them that it does not matter whether they have confidence in me or not. What matters is that I am the Chairman of the County Public Accounts and Investment Committee in this House. I will make sure that any MCA, whether he is married to my daughter like one of them is, will not get away with public funds. He has heard me and I am warning him; even it means that my daughter is left in the cold without her husband, because he is cooling his heels in jail for six years for playing around with public funds, then so be it. We have to build a new Kenya."
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