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    "content": "The Auditor-General and the National Assembly are there to audit expenditure of funds by the national Government. We have trouble with the Senate where the PSC is headed by the Speaker of the National Assembly whose agenda is to behave like what is written in the book of John in the Bible, Chapter 10:10 that the enemy has come to steal, kill and destroy. This seems to be the agenda of our brethren in the “Lower House”. They want to kill or destroy the Senate. By killing and destroying the Senate, they are actually saying that all the monies that always passes through our hands yearly to our counties--- We have ample evidence, to the extent that we know that malpractices are happening on the ground. It is not all of them but we know that some do. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if you want to know that there is malpractice in West Pokot County, you should see how people’s body sizes have transformed; they are very huge. Some did not even have a bicycle, but they have refused to buy a motor bike or a Probox model car, but they are directly going to buy Prados and other heavy models. There is one who has a “permanent and pensionable helicopter” roaming around with him whenever he wants to go for breakfast, lunch and dinner. He even flies to the beach and comes back home. For your information, they do not take breakfast in their counties. I know of some governors who have forgotten how their homes look like. They have migrated to other counties and only come back to their counties in the morning because of the loose money that is available. This is the money that the Senate is supposed to oversight. It even pinches the Members of the National Assembly a lot because even them, they are living in a time of splendor which they fear the Senate will trespass and check some of the projects which they are duplicating on the ground and running to the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) headquarters and presenting photographs of buildings purported to have been done using the same money and yet they have been done by the national Government or the county governments. Somebody somewhere is a thief and we are closing in on them. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I would like to candidly tell the Senators whose names appear on this list that they are heading into tough times. They will be intimidated at dawn, at noon and in the evening, including in your own houses. This means that they should be patriotic and live up to the ideals of this Constitution which states that we have been given sovereignty of power. We must exercise that with a lot of reasonable understanding that we are here to do this. Therefore, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I support this Motion. For once, let us look at this. If they do not finish the process in three months, there is room as indicated in Article 200 of the Constitution – as you put – that the committee’s recommendations shall be tabled in the House for approval after it is done. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to support."
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