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    "id": 556278,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "is saying that this House is stifling the operations of the Judiciary is being economical with the truth. The truth is that that Kshs1 billion came from the Development Vote of the Judiciary. The Judiciary has not complained about this money. Those who are outside the Judiciary are speaking louder than the Judiciary itself, especially the Senate. They should be transparent and tell Kenyans that they are hurt by the fact that Kshs1 billion has been re-allocated from their Vote to somewhere else. Regarding the Senate, the mistake was not reallocating this money from the Senate to devolved units of the government. The mistake was to allocate this money. We must own up, as a House that, that was wrong. It is illogical to give each Senator an average of Kshs1.6 million every month to go and just sit in a baraza with wazees and buy for them sodas. That is what it translates to. That is exactly what we were about to do. I thank God that this stalemate reached this level as we were going to commit an illegality in this country. Whoever brought this stalemate on the Division of Revenue Bill has saved us. We were going to give the Senators another salary on top of what they earn. This money was not going to be spent the same way the CDF or the social affirmative action money is being spent. We were going to give each of the Senators a salary of Kshs1.6 million to move around the county. The Senators are saying that they are going to use this money to oversee. How are they going to oversee with this money? The primary oversight role on the county governments is with the county assemblies and they have committees such as the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and other departmental committees. The Senate’s responsibility is at the secondary level. The Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) has a Vote for Committee Services for both the National Assembly and the Senate. If the Committee on Health wants to go to Bungoma, as I saw the Senator for Bungoma doing, which was a good job, there is money for that. He went to Bungoma to see what was happening in health facilities. The Committee on Health of the Senate should move to Bungoma using the money that is allocated by the PSC to go and oversee the county governments."
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