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    "id": 628217,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/628217/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "February 25, 2016 SENATE DEBATES 13 Sen. Musila",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to congratulate the petitioners, particularly the Senator for Vihiga for presenting this Petition. As my colleagues who have spoken have said, this appears to be a trend in all counties. The tragedy is that whenever a Senator points out mistakes on misappropriations, he is labeled that he wants to contest that seat. I have looked at the list of people who have received money from the County Government of Vihiga under the Emergency Fund, this list has the Council of Governors (CoG). What emergency did the CoG have to receive Kshs8 million from the Emergency Fund? The list goes on and on. It has consultants, cottages, et cetera . Governors are finding all ways of spending money. As I speak, in my own county, for example, the governor is spending Kshs65 million ostensibly for registration of voters. Why is he spending Kshs65 million to register voters, when we know clearly that it is the mandate of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), and we are campaigning towards that? Something must be done. In my view, the department that has failed Kenyans in as far as our county governments are concerned is the Auditor-General. Nobody has questioned this governor. Even when we get reports from the Auditor-General, they are generally not serious enough. They are just casual because it is the clerks in the counties who are sent to investigate. When they go there, they meet these governors and are compromised. They write reports as the governors wish. The Petition talks about contractors. This is the conduit of money being wasted by governors. On Saturday, I pointed out to the contractors in Kitui County that they were colluding with the executive to fleece the people of Kitui of their money. The governor put all of them together in a Press Conference to say that they are not---"
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