{"id":584234,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/584234/?format=json","text_counter":242,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":170,"legal_name":"Bonny Khalwale","slug":"bonny-khalwale"},"content":"Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this Bill. Allow me to congratulate the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights for the foresight that it has demonstrated by coming up with this Bill. Madam Temporary Speaker, cases abound in many counties where the citizenry is held helpless. They want somewhere to go to and somebody to complain to about the many things that they witness on a day to day basis. We have got cases in many counties where members of the public are witnessing employees of the county government becoming overnight village millionaires. They see the investments that these officers are making and are hesitant as to whom to go to. Madam Temporary Speaker, they see unfair dishing out of contracts and tenders to specific people who are either friends or politically correct people to the governor and relatives of the governor. They, therefore, remain helpless as they have nowhere to go to. I know of a case in Kakamega County where the county government had a very nice project of putting up two Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) classrooms in every primary school. In one instance, a contractor who is related to the procurement officer was given a whooping six schools to build in one sub-county. In the process, one individual, just for purposes of constructing four walls with doors and windows was given the monopoly of doing 12 classrooms. In a county of 2 million people like Kakamega, that cannot be justified in any way. Members of the public - Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. and Sen. Sang - through your industry, will have an opportunity to quickly approach the county assembly. I must thank you. 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."}