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    "content": "accountability on county governments and not the national Government. There are other institutions including the National Assembly who are vested with that mandate of dealing with the National Government accountability. So, let us not mix issues. We are critical of what is happening at the county governments because we have been charged with the responsibility of county governments. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the reason why we are doing this and why we must do this, however painful, however costly, however unpleasant, however dirty, however inelegant, however politically incorrect it may look; sometimes you just have to do your work. If you go to a mortuary, there is a person there called an undertaker, whose job is not elegant, not nice, not great and he does not talk about with a lot of pride but somebody has to make sure when our loved ones pass on, they are treated and we are helped to dispose them off in a dignified manner. This Senate must assume the role of an undertaker and do the work that looks politically incorrect. That work is to call all thieves who are stealing our country resources, as such. Call them “thieves”; do not tell us that devolution is new so there are teething problems. Stealing and robbery are not teething problems. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you do not need to have capacity to know that stealing is a crime and is a sin under our Constitution and under the laws of our God. So, this battle must be escalated and I want to warn all the thieves and looters of public funds in our counties, wherever they are, big or small, the Senate of the Republic of Kenya will fight them. We will use all methods possible to fight them be it on land, sea, wherever they are, we will chase them from the forests of convenience where they have hidden, we will harass them until sanity is restored in our country. We have taken an oath and we are willing to lose our reputationand our political correctness defending that oath, and, if need be, to die defending the oath we have taken. I beg to reply."
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