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    "content": "has received this much money. I have looked at the records of expenditure and I see no mega developments. Where has this money gone? As we are in the Senate here every day, the governor is in every village telling people how successful he has been with a gang of sycophants around him who whenever he goes to any area, go ahead of him with money. The other time I saw what I have never seen. My friend, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Congo told me it is called megalomaniacs. The governor has a pickup with a driver and a co-driver with two boys sitting on top of the pickup carrying a chair from his office to take to a funeral 30 kilometres away. That is the chair in which he is going to sit on. When the Senator of the area arrives and finds no sit, he can sit on the ground, address people, condole them and go away. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, money is being spent to carry a chair from the headquarters. On a Saturday, you are deploying a vehicle, fuel, wear and tear, a driver, a co-driver and two young men sitting on top of the pickup holding the chair so that it does not fall for the governor to sit on at a funeral. When they finish the funeral, it is carried back. What kind of wastage is this? As lawyers, we say res ipsa loquitur; meaning, things speak for themselves. You do not need even a complainant for institutions of governance to call the governor and ask him how he is spending public resources. These things are done everywhere. As we go to the conference in Mombasa, I want to urge Members to engage Members of County Assembly (MCAs) as a primary oversight institution. Unfortunately, many of them have been captured by governors. We need to encourage them that they have the ability, the constitutional and legal authority to setup investigative committees; leave alone the oversight standing committees. They should setup investigative committees and investigate whatever they need to find out. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, one other thing that we as Senate need to pay attention to is the collapse of the health system. People in the villages are dying like flies. In fact, today, they have grandeur names with huge sign posts written ‘Nandi Referral Hospital’. Every county has a referral hospital. It is anything but referral. When you send there a patient, they go and die."
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