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    "id": 663113,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, before I make any comment, I thank each Senator who has shown interest in this Petition from Bungoma County. I salute the five courageous residents of Bungoma County who have filed this Petition. For ordinary citizens to come to this House and file a petition to highlight issues of corruption, it means that they have lost hope along the way, to the effect that the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the EACC and all institutions of Government are not working. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Bungoma is the county with notoriety, where in the first year, the governor presented a budget where he had allocated Kshs53 million to fight pornography that does not exist in Bungoma. He had provided Kshs54 million for personal entertainment. This means that he was to spend an average of Kshs1 million plus on personal entertainment every week. It is the county with the notoriety of the governor spending public funds to invite a man from Congo called Kanda Bongo Man to the county to dance the whole night, where the governor himself was dancing. It is the county where a wheelbarrow was bought for Kshs109,000 which translates to 2725 per cent above the normal purchase price of a wheelbarrow. This is the county where a meat hook which hangs a leg of a cow in a butchery was bought for Kshs34,000 when it costs Kshs400. It is the county where a parcel of land that would have cost Kshs47 million was bought by the governor at Kshs163 million. It is the county where recently, the governor purchased a chair worth Kshs2.7 million to be carried around for him to sit on whenever he goes for a funeral. Mr. Speaker, Sir, these obscenities are the frustration that drive residents to run to this House. The only good thing that appeared in Bungoma County recently is when a courageous young man hang onto a helicopter and looked like James Bond. Otherwise, everything from my county is stinking. It may be recalled that the Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission (EACC) went to Bungoma on an investigation mission and found an official of the county with Kshs6 million under his mattress. Up to today, he has not been prosecuted or been taken to account. It is the county where the governor and his government can award two contracts on one road, from A to B and B to A and pay for both simultaneously. This is how money is being stolen. This story sounds like every other story in every other county but Bungoma is the most notorious. It is the only county that is leading in pending bills. When the Controller of Budget released the list of pending bills, Bungoma County had Kshs2.7 billion pending bills against the provisions of the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA). I want to urge my brother, the Senate Majority Leader, that we need to sit together and re-look at the Standing Orders. We need to know what to do with the end product of petitions that come to this House. Bringing witnesses to give testimonies and then The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
}