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    "id": 594642,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ground 3: Abuse of Office/Gross Misconduct",
    "speaker_title": "",
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    "content": "The County Governor of Murang’a exhibited gross-misconduct, abused his office in the following ways:- (i) Violation of Article 75(1) of the Constitution on the conduct of state officers and Section 13 of the Leadership and Integrity Act using public funds to brand his name that is evident in the enormous advertisements in the vernacular stations and billboards erected along the roads and at Ihura Stadium Gate. The Governor has continued to misappropriate public funds for personal branding in every advertisement made by the county. For instance, the front page of the printed examination cited ‘Murang’a County Post Mock Examination’ for the year 2014/2015 bear the name of the Governor, insinuating that he is the sole sponsor of the program and not the County Government. (ii) Pretentious realignment of departments and programs within departments that had not exhausted their budgets hence disregarding avenues that have been provided for by law as manifested during the Supplementary Budget for FY 2014/2015, thus causing confusion and hindering effective budget implementation of programs, particularly in the departments of trade, industry, commerce, agro-marketing, cooperatives, agriculture and livestock. (iii) Appointment of Mr. Christopher Ngera as the Chief Officer for Education and Technical Training Department who had been rejected by the County Assembly, contrary to Article 185 of the Constitution of Kenya and Section 45(1) (b) of the County Governments Act, 2012; thus defrauding public funds through payments of allowance/salaries to the said Chief Officer for the period he was illegally in office. (iv) Use of personal portraits in county funded projects, contrary to Article 73(1) (a) (i) and (iv) on Public Trust, Article 75(1) of the Constitution of Kenya and Section 13 of the Leadership and Integrity Act. (v) Loss of public funds through payment of eight ghost workers and lack of a precise inventory of the staff establishment as indicated in the Report of the Auditor- General 2013/2014 contrary to Article 226(5) of the Constitution of Kenya. (v) Failure to appoint a substantive Chairperson of the County Public Service Board and allowing the Vice Chairperson to occupy the said office for an undefined period, contrary to Section 64(2) of the County Governments Act, 2012. (vii) The Governor failed in his duty to Gazette all the County Executive Committee members whom we appointed on different dates in accordance with Section 30(2) (i) of the County Governments Act, 2012. (viii) Contrary to the provisions of Section 30(1) (j) of the County Governments Act, 2012, the County Governor since inception of the County Government, has never submitted to the Murang’a County Assembly any implementation status report of county policies and plans. (ix) The County Governor has continuously displayed negligence in his duties by failing to issue Gazette Notices of all important formal institutions made by him and of the County Executive Committee pursuant to Section 30(1) of the County Governments Act, 2012. 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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