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    "id": 609941,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lesan",
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        "legal_name": "Wilfred Rottich Lesan",
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    "content": "Thank you Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. As I sympathize for myself with regard to my governor, I now realise I am not alone in this. I am joined by my colleagues and I am sure I am also joined by many other Senators with Governors who do other activities which are not commensurate with assisting the public. This is exactly why we desire that we supervise the usage of these funds that we send to the counties in a more thorough manner than we are doing at the moment. We hold political offices which, of course, emanate from the public who cast their vote to put us in office. This amount of wastage of funds right in front of the eyes of the public is not auguring very well with those who are supposed to supervise and stop the pilferage of these funds. Since these are political offices, we stand to lose seriously if we are unable to curtail the wastage of this money as our role has been curtailed and reduced by what the other House did. I support this House as it looks around to see another way of reacting to this issue other than the ones we have acted upon, before. One of the ways to do this is to strictly ask that the governance of this country is done according to what is stipulated in the Constitution. In other words, the three arms of Government must stand out and each of them must perform its role. We are not making it very clear in this country that the three arms of Government operate on their own. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, one example of an activity which is not commensurate with the three arms of Government is CDF which is not oversighted. Nobody oversights the CDF money in this country except when it has been utilized and the Auditor-General looks at the figures and by then, the money is gone. The other supposed oversight of CDF money is a small committee that has been formed by the same persons who are oversighting the funds. Therefore, CDF is not oversighted properly. I think it can only be oversighted properly if it goes to the right arm of Government which is the Executive. I think there will be many more – 349 or actually 490 persons including Senators who are willing to be oversighting this money. That way, we shall be a lot more in number doing the right functions oversighting the usage of funds. With this unfortunate situation where we have to answer on the revenues of the counties to make ourselves relevant for survival, I think it is a just course and a good battle that we have to fight through because this is for the good of the public. 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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