Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 628215,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/628215/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 97,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murungi",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 93,
        "legal_name": "Kiraitu Murungi",
        "slug": "kiraitu-murungi"
    },
    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I support this Petition and commend the MCAs of Vihiga County who thought it fit to bring this Petition to this House. The MCAs are supposed to be the primary agents of accountability in the counties, but most of them are not doing that job because they have been compromised by the governors. Others are intimidated like we have heard in this Petition. I want to commend the courage of those MCAs and encourage other MCAs in the country to speak out because there is massive theft, fraud and plunder of public resources in all the counties in this country. In my own county - Meru County - we have pending bills of Kshs1.5 billion for contractors who have not been paid, but largely for contracts based on projects which were not budgeted for. Two or three of those contractors have been paid huge amounts of money because they are mere fronts for people in the county executive. Thorough investigations need to be done by the watchdog committees of this House, especially this year. This is because there will be more theft this year as we approach the elections. We have seen in some of the by-elections, governors using five choppers. We should stop the theft so that governors do not use public money for their own personal campaigns. I want to advise my colleagues that we will not reform the county governments with some of those governors in place. We have to remove them and some of us have to volunteer to go and remove them, just as we support this House. Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
}