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    "content": "to the walls in Jerusalem and the angels had spoken to them, they had already won the elections. Madam Temporary Speaker, this is the arrogance that has come as a result of the money that we have sent and the money that they collect. Let us now see what will happen if this Petition proceeds and it is recommended that they go; it mean that elections will be done if Senate is satisfied. It will not be business as usual for anybody who was elected on 4th March 2013. I even doubt whether they will appear on the ballot papers. They were given the mandate to serve people and they quickly decided to go and share the “dead cow”, thinking that it was dead when it was not. This is what we are seeing everywhere. You have heard of Isiolo which is also like a stalled project, where people are fighting. Nearly every county has a similar problem. If a county Assembly wants to survive, some of them have to kneel down to the Governor who sometimes, when there is hostility from the county assembly, does unimaginable things like bribing them. Have you heard of a case where the Governor of a ruling coalition running the county government suddenly decided to adopt all the members in opposition and chase away the members from the ruling coalition? For example, in this House, I cannot imagine that the President can kick out the Senate Majority Leader, Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki, of Jubilee Coalition and immediately start working to transact business. I wonder what kind of business he will transact with the Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Wetangula. This is what is happening now in some county assemblies. Right now as I speak, they are just buying time and saying: “Let us do it until we finish our term.” This has not gone well and you will find that some of them have gone to the extent of employing relatives of MCAs, so that they work for them and vice versa. We heard what Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale was talking about when they brought the reports after wasting time for two years. They imagined that the Senate does not exist. We asked them whether they had been calling their Senators to talk to the MCAs and bringing Petitions even on phone, so that we know what is happening on the ground. It is until they hit a dead end in the court that they remember that the Senate exists. We are telling them that it is time they realised that this institution was not put in place for no reason. The Senate is here to safeguard devolution. Sometimes, when fingers are pointed at governors, they quickly run and say that devolution is being killed by the Senate and the National Assembly. There is no way devolution is equated to governance of a county. Devolution is not a governor and his business there. So many people have already hidden themselves there whenever issues are raised. I sit in the County Public Accounts and Investments Committee, which is chaired by Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale. Any time we call a governor, they come with a communal letter that one of them rushed to court and brought to say that; they cannot come and account for any reason because of it. They claim that they are so senior that they cannot be summoned by a Senate Committee. Article 96(3) says:- “The Senate determines the allocation of the national revenue among counties, as provided in Article 217, and exercises oversight over national revenue allocated to the county governments.” 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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