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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I am sorry if I was misquoted. If we fine-tune this Constitution, we might get the silver bullet to address the issue of corruption. Where are the flagship projects for the approximately Kshs1 trillion that has gone into the devolved Governments? Are they in Kiambu, Mombasa, Nakuru or Kakamega? We do not see them. Instead, Sen. Musila – the governor-in-waiting – was forced to be teargassed for him to send a point that a road in Kitui is not motorable. I beg the Members from both sides of this House that this is an opportunity for us to factor in a strategy of fighting corruption. The billions that we have given governors cannot even be audited. We, at the County Public Accounts Committee, get audit reports and wonder why we sit in the Committee. They present two pages showing Kshs30 million of unrecovered imprest. Madam Temporary Speaker, they also give you an annexure of hundreds of people who received that imprest, yet they do not speak about the abuse of money meant to do projects worth Kshs200 million or Kshs300 million. This is because the auditors are now being ‘pocketed’ by the governors whom they are supposed to audit. Why do we not improve the Constitution, so that we can catch these governors? In Kakamega, Governor Oparanya, upon being summoned to come before the Senate so as to answer how he spends public funds meant to develop Kakamega, ran to the High Court. In the High Court, they give such excuses as constitutional reference and adjournment of mention and hearing dates. This is the fourth year and the people of Kakamega have no idea how the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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