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    "id": 574608,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Krop Lonyangapuo",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I join my colleagues in congratulating the Senate Majority Leader for bringing this Motion of Adjournment. Senators will visit their counties during recess time. Some of them will be sitting in Committees to handle issues of petitions. The Auditors-General’s reports for the last financial year have all come. I am not forgetting some of us from the North Rift who had problems of cattle rustling. This Session, Senators from the North Rift region decided to work together to fight the problem of cattle rustling head on, led by Sen. Moi, Sen. Leshore and myself. I can report that there has been significant improvement and we do not hear those problems again. I want to believe that we will continue to do the same during recess. At the same time, hon. Senators need to be on the ground to disseminate and explain the functions of the Senate. There is a lot of misunderstanding on the ground. Citizens think that Senators have money that they are supposed to use for development. The people who are perpetuating this are the governors, whom we have just given money today. We have just released the payments for the County Governments Disbursement Schedule for the Financial Year 2015/2016. Unfortunately, some of this money will be used for running campaigns. In some instances, I am surprised that some governors have decided to become the rallying points for campaigns. They have already created their governors, Senators, MCAs and Members of Parliament (MPs) for themselves. In my county, there is one “governor” who has been given money and he is everywhere digging boreholes. He is saying that “You are the real Senator. “ Which boreholes have been drilled by this man?” My responsibility is not to dig boreholes. I am not supposed to build anything. I am 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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