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    "content": "its own as far as looking at these Reports are concerned. I wish that we could come up with strict timelines within which CPAIC is required to look at this. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to call upon the newly constituted CPAIC to be bold in the recommendations. Let us not be polite nor please the governors. For the record, I support my governor, but I do not support a situation where the governor buys a hatchery at Kshs400,000 when you can get a similar hatchery at Kshs150,000. That is the point at which we put aside our friendship, our membership of a political party. It is a point at which we start talking of criminality. If we are going to procure at twice the price, there is no difference between you and those people in Bungoma County who bought wheelbarrows at extra ordinary prices. There is no difference between you and those people in the Ministry of Devolution and Planning who bought pens and condom dispensers and other toys at extra ordinary prices. We cannot be shouting that some people at the Central Government are corrupt yet there are certain Acts at the county governments that indicate that we are equally as bad as the people in the Central Government if not worse. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Members of CPAIC must set aside their political party loyalties, must get rid of what one time Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale called “the mother hen” instinct. The Mother hen instinct is when you are Chairperson of CPAIC and you go to a county that is run by people who are friendly to you and your party, you are tempted to protect them so that your party is not seen in a bad light. At the end of the day, this Senate does not exist to defend political parties or to defend coalitions, but to defend the livelihoods of the people in the counties. Finally Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, about the issue of value of money audits, I do hope that as we have said, they will be done within one year and we are going to get those Reports which are going to be reports that are fair and truly representative of some of the project that are happening in the counties. With the reluctance that I had expressed at the beginning, I second this Motion, but I do hope that some of the issues that I have raised will be looked into so that we do not devolve corruption. I must repeat this again that as much as I defend and protect devolution, I am the defender and protector of the county government of Homa Bay, and in as much as I have a good relationship with my governor and his Executive, in the issue of hatcheries and solar street lamps, that is the point where we will stop being friends so that we resolve these things and make sure the people of Homa Bay County get value for money. Once those issues have been addressed, then we continue with our friendship and we can go on to 2017 and get re-elected if these things are addressed satisfactorily. Thank you."
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