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    "id": 724749,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Karaba",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 232,
        "legal_name": "Daniel Dickson Karaba",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it seems that people out there have more powers to penetrate into the affairs of the devolved governments than us as the Senate. We are the people who have been entrusted and empowered to make sure that the oversight facilities and services are provided by us. However, going by what has been happening in the past, we are unable to interrogate what happens in the county governments. Most county governments are misusing public funds. The other day, the Auditor- General singled out counties like Kirinyaga, Kakamega and many others where a lot of public funds have been misused. Since when did we give other people power to oversight and not the Senate? I wonder whether we still have the powers of over sighting county governments. It seems like we are irrelevant because anytime these things happen, the people in the counties do not regard us as people who can oversight because we have no such powers. Can we be told whether we have the powers to oversight because we are going to have a lot of problems moving forward to oversight the counties? A lot of money has been misused and embezzled and we have no powers to penetrate those offices and find out what might have happened to such monies. I beg to support the Petition."
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