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    "content": "Kakamega counties, particularly close to me are both counties because Nyamira is represented in this House by a Senator on my party. Kakamega is represented in this House by my Deputy Party Leader, the distinguished, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale. I encourage the delegations to engage with the committees of this House and learn as much as they possibly can. More particularly, I encourage them to sit in the County Public Accounts and Investments Committee (CPAIC) and disabuse the public of the false notion that CPAIC is an instrument of witch hunt. As the County Assembly has come to learn, I also encourage them to avoid any temptation to be captured by governors. They are the primary oversight instruments in the counties. I was recently horrified when I went to CPAIC to attend some session and the Governor under interrogation had the majority leader from his county assembly carrying his briefcase coming to witness the interrogation. How do you expect that majority leader from a county carrying the governor’s briefcase to come CPAIC, to go back and oversight him? These are some of the things that are giving devolution a bad name. I have no doubt that my distinguished colleagues from Kakamega and Nyamira counties are not in this bracket and that you will carry out your oversight responsibility without fear, favour or prejudice and that the money that we vote in this House to come to your counties is put to the benefit of the people and not the use of governors to carry seats to funerals to sit on as other people do not sit in funerals."
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