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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this very important Petition. It has come at the right time after we have witnessed what the governors are doing and studied the laws affecting the governors vis-a-vis Senators. It is evident from experience that governors spend money yet there is nobody to oversight them. When they misuse funds and the case is eventually brought to the Senate, and it recommends that they be impeached, none of them has been impeached after all this process. Therefore, they feel free to do whatever they want because there is nothing the Senate can do. We have made recommendations but nothing happens. So, it is my view that all the counties should be given the recommendations of this Petition. We have realised, for example, through what we read in the newspapers that governors have even gone ahead to hire goons and gangs before the next election so that they are assured of being re-elected. In executing this, they use money meant for development. So, if we are not careful, we will be locked out of contesting for those positions and they will remain theirs forever without anybody else penetrating. Therefore, we need to do something with this Petition so that we can penetrate and see what is happening with public funds. There is a lot of misuse and nobody seems to bother because all the Members of County Assemblies (MCAs) and County Executive Committee members (CECs) have been comprised by the governors. There is nothing they can do to remove governors. The Petition is an eye opener. It can benefit all counties."
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