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    "content": "he just freezes it there. Why did he set up the Commission in the first place? The law requires that when he receives the report, he sends it to this House. This House will then give it to the relevant committee that will look into it and advise Plenary, but the final word lies with Plenary. The Committee can reject the recommendations, but this House in its full sitting, can look at the facts and decide that this is a government worth dissolution, or a government not worth dissolution. So, this law is so important that it is creating correct legal steps and procedures in arriving at whether the county government can be dissolved or not. These safeguards in law were put there in a dispensation of, probably, in a situation in which we find ourselves in. All the institutions of governance in the country are either compromised or dead. The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) acts with a lot of funfare with pictures and televisions. That is the first and last we hear of them. You just hear a governor has been invited for grilling. That is the end. I am told when they send their officers to the counties, it is an early Christmas for the governor because he has an opportunity to capture and compromise them and you will never hear of it. Have you ever heard the outcome of the investigations from the County Government of Bungoma where my governor bought a wheelbarrow worth Kshs2,000 for a Kshs109,000? There was a lot of funfare. The governor was summoned and grilled. That was the end of it. There are many others. You have seen what I saw Sen. Kembi-Gitura in spirited arguments with his governor about the purchase of land. A similar story is in Bungoma County. A land worth hardly Kshs20 million was bought by the Governor at a Kshs172 million. I have no doubt the seller of the land must have gotten the value for which the land is worth and the rest has been diverted to others. Who will save this country? I hope that we have some men and women of integrity running our institutions of governance. The Office of the Auditor-General is completely overwhelmed, not to mention the regular undermining of the office by the Executive. You saw how the President humiliated the Auditor- General in State House after calling the so-called summit on corruption. I do not know whether the summit was meant to hail corruption or to highlight corruption. That immediately after some session, you saw the President went and greeted two people and when he reached the Auditor-General, he waved him off like a nuisance. He did not shake his hand. The Auditor-General is not supposed to be the President’s friend or anybody’s friend. His duty is to tell the country whether money voted for and authorised by Parliament has been put to good use or not. I like the Auditor-General when the President told him off for trying to go to the Federal Reserve Bank in the United States of America (USA) on the Eurobond investigations. He said, “It may help you, Mr. President. I may go there and find nothing and silence those who have been accusing you.” That is a very good answer. You heard the President even speaking in his mother tongue, “ Ngai, what is this man talking about?” We should not degenerate to this level. The moment you become a President of a country, like Jaramogi Odinga used to say whether you came in through the window, roof or backdoor, you carry some levels of responsibilities that cannot be compromised. Your integrity must be beyond reproach. You should not be seen to support things that are not supportable. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, have you noticed how the President has maintained the conspiracy of silence since members of his family; his own sister and cousins, were 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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