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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murungi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kiraitu Murungi",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to thank you for giving me this opportunity to support this important Bill with amendments that are being proposed by the Committee. Our role as Senate has not been clearly understood by those who read Article 96(2) and (3). It is very clear that it is our real as the Senate to allocate national resources to the counties. This is what we are doing through this Bill. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is you who was saying that governors go around saying they have given this and that, without mentioning that. Indeed, it is the Senators who have allocated the money which the governors are using for various projects within our counties. It is not fair for governors not to mention that it is the Senator who has brought these resources that they are using in the counties. I am very happy that the Senate is now considering how it will empower itself to pass that message to the people, so that we can go around our counties and explain the role of the Senators to the people. The amount of money that we are transferring from the national Government to the counties this time, Kshs283 billion; it is a lot of money. It is our constitutional duty to make sure that the kshs283 billion being transferred to the counties is not stolen. That it is goes towards the development of our counties. It is our constitutional duty to effectively oversight these national resources that are going to the counties. I believe that through this budget process, the Senate will also be properly empowered for us to play our constitutional role as specified in Article 96. Secondly, our other institutions for over sighting these funds are the county assemblies; it has become impossible for the MCAs to oversight the governors and county executives because of insufficient exposure and lack of capacity. Indeed, the former Prime Minister once said that sometimes it is like we are sending someone carrying meat and then we send dogs after him. When the dogs get very near, he throws 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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