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    "id": 698634,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 447,
        "legal_name": "John Krop Lonyangapuo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, what I am saying is that when the cattle rustlers, thieves or murderers see leaders together, they are disarmed by our presence. That alone is sufficient. I have heard for the last two days Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o talking about his presence with Sen. Sang at the boundary of Kisumu and Nandi counties when there was a problem last year. The moment you appear there, they will go talking in low and high tones that they saw their leaders. They will also say that the dispute has become painful that their leaders have left their offices to come to the bush and talk to them. That is what I meant. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this is what we require. However, you remember that for a Senator to move from this Chamber to such areas, he must use his personal resources. Suppose you have taken a loan. How will you move from one place to another? This is where we have failed. We have not effected the Constitution properly. We should have had an oversight fund. The manner in which the National Assembly was given more power on Money Bills was not right. We should have been getting our own oversight funds from the funds that we allocate to the counties. We should have taken about two per cent just like the National Government Constituencies Development Fund. That is a percentage of about two point five of the national funds. In our case, it should be money for the county governments. It should also be audited by the Auditor-General because it is not our funds. This is where we would put order on how some of these projects are done. We have come to learn during the sittings with the governors. Some of the projects that are done haphazardly are driven by the desire to get some cut of about 10 or 20 per cent. I do not know how much it has risen to nowadays. When you build things like that, you do not care whether they will be finished or not. You do not care which financial year it will be ended. It may extend from one financial year to another. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, some of the Members of the National Assembly have issues because they see the money allocated to the counties and they start listening 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"
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