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    "content": "do certain works by the county executive without any procurement procedures being applied. Some of these contractors stated that they were instructed verbally. I want to refer the Senate to the County Assembly’s Documents Volume III, page 86. The background of this is that these are persons who were given works to do within the county without any regard to procurement procedures. Some were instructed verbally and others by text. There could be some who were instructed even over the social media. I am not sure, but the letters are clear. For example, on page 86, a letter from DFAFF Construction Limited states:- “We delivered murram to the above destination as per the attached quotation. We are yet to get an LSO. This was done verbally and the works was inspected by your staff.” At page 88, there is another letter where another person was told to deliver murram to Mukurweini. At page 92, there is another demand letter. Generally, all the way from page 82 running through to page 96 are demand letters that were sent by contractors to the county executive, but because they could not get paid, the complaint was made to the county assembly. I am reminded by the county assembly to submit that one of its primary roles is to be a representative body of the members of a particular county. This matter fell squarely under its consideration. At page 181 of the same volume, the county assembly established an ad hoc committee to investigate these projects and the matter of the pending bills. I will not go through the HANSARD, but the matter that was before the House is captured more succinctly at page 225, which captures the concerns of the county assembly at the time. The first concern is in the second paragraph; ‘to establish an ad hoc select committee with the following terms of reference’--- This is a county assembly determining to establish an"
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