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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kembi-Gitura",
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        "legal_name": "James Kembi Gitura",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, that is very useful information. That is the point; these billboards and those waiver things all bear the picture of the governor and contain campaign slogans within them. These are the issues that even the committee that investigated the impeachment of the Governor of Murang’a County made clear. They said that no governor has the right to put his image or campaign slogan on any billboard or other material that uses public financing. It is going on with impunity. The reason why these things are happening is because the Senate has been rendered so impotent that we are unable to deal with every aspect of oversight that Article 96 bestows upon us. Therefore, this is important. I do not know what a joint committee will achieve. However, out of self-worth, we must go beyond that point and do what is right. We have elections next year. Come the next Parliament, we must have a Senate that is able to deal with matters of oversight much better than we have been able to. I plead with my fellow Senators who want to become governors. They must remember that we passed the Bill by Sen. Sang into law. They do not have to be reminded once they become governors that we do not need the law to actualize the tenets of what the Sang Bill meant. They can still run their counties when they become governors using the tenets and the ambience that we put into that Bill. That way, we can have oversight even without the law because the National Assembly will make every effort to frustrate what they will do once they become governors. We have a role to play. We have learnt in the last four years and we will learn, going forward to the elections, that it is for this country that we say the things we say and pass the regulations that we pass. Our aim is having oversight as part and parcel of devolution. Devolution is the future of this country. We must, therefore, nurture it to the best of our knowledge and ability rather than destroy it. Thank you. 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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