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    "id": 554560,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "send to the counties must be pegged on the functions that have been devolved and gazetted by the Transitional Authority in 2013/2014. The Senate has a role to play. There are many issues happening in our country. For example, the Governor of Embu has turned out to be very outrageous and unique, with nine lives. This is a governor who has been impeached by the Senate, but the High Court reinstated him. Today, the Governor of Embu is sitting in office and riding in a vehicle with a flag. These are some of the outrageous things that happen in this country. You can be taken to court and the court rules that you are not eligible to hold an office because the Senate has impeached you, but you still remain the Governor of Embu. Hon, Speaker, there are over 20 governors who are facing the Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission (EACC). We agree with the Senate that as you give Kshs3.3 billion or Kshs258 billion with one hand, please use the other hand to follow up and establish whether the Kshs258 billion will be used prudently. The Senate should not play politics. The function of a legislature is to legislate, oversee and represent. We have taken the best brains to the Senate. I served in the last Parliament. The best brains in the last Parliament are in the Senate. Examples are Senators Kiraitu Murungi, James Orengo, Anyang’-Nyong’o, Billow Kerrow and Mutahi Kagwe. Some of the best brains are also in our House. We are doing serious oversight on the national Government every day through our committees. You have seen Cabinet Secretaries here who sweat when they are called, and they cannot even explain. We are telling the Senate that Kshs3.3 billion is not a huge amount. We will give it to the county governments. We will defend devolution. We want water, healthcare and roads for our people. We also want empowerment for women and the youth in our counties. Now that they are on recess, I ask our Senators to go to Siaya, Kitui, Garissa, Marsabit, Homa Bay and Murang’a. They should ask themselves if the Kshs190 billion that we gave to the county governments in financial year 2013/2014 and the over Kshs230 billion we gave in the financial year 2014/2015 was felt on the ground. Is there value to the lives of the people of Kenya in the counties? Some of us from the pastoral communities supported the Constitution of Kenya, 2010 because our people yearned for it, having been marginalised since Independence. However, today we are facing marginalisation from ourselves. We blamed the national Government but today our own people marginalise us. The money that we appropriate does not get to our people. This afternoon, the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee must tell us how we are going to finance the Kshs3.3 billion. From what I read last night, already there is Kshs1 billion available. There was Kshs1 billion which was to be used for political rallies and town hall meetings. We want that Kshs1 billion to finance the Kshs3.3 financial gap. Secondly, somebody somewhere gave an advisory opinion that did not help us, and did not follow the Constitution as per Article 95(4), which says that the Division of Revenue Bill belongs to the National Assembly. That person should also donate another Kshs1 billion to finance the gap. We will raise the other Kshs1 billion as follows: Kshs200 million should come from the Salaries and Remunerations Commission and the remaining Kshs800 million can come from the national Government. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}