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    "content": "used to buy fuel while on the other hand, it was possibly being used to line private pockets. The Governor for Migori has many mistakes. In fact, when we shall go there for the NASA rally, I hope I will be given a chance to tell the people how devolution has not worked very well in Migori. I am saying this on authority of the Auditor General. Governor Obado was caught buying motor vehicles. You will not believe it. He procured 41 motor vehicles at a cost of Kshs231,678,000. As far as the people of Migori are concerned, the priority was not to buy motor vehicles that much. The only thing that the poor man who struggles with a five year old child that dies from malaria – what this poor person would have got in this Financial Year was the Kshs14 million that was paid to KEMSA to purchase drugs. This governor spent Kshs14 million to buy drugs; the people felt need and in comparison spends Kshs231 million to buy motor vehicles. For whose use? Not ambulances! It is for them to drive around and look big with police sirens in front. I pray to God that if the people of Kakamega so decide that I become the governor, I will convert such four wheel drive vehicles in Kakamega that make people look big and important into ambulances. We do not need them. To come from Malinya to the office in Kakamega Town I can even come on foot. Nobody will touch me. After all, I go to Kakamega with my bull. I ride with my bull when we are going for bull fighting. What is the big deal? I can go to Kakamega on a boda boda, sit in the governor’s office, speak fluent English, meet whites and attract them to invest. These young people do not have to ride on four-wheel-drive vehicles. We are lying to this country; that the priority in Migori was to buy vehicles worth Kshs231 million. After buying them, we are told by the Auditor-General that he was not satisfied with the response since the relevant documentation had not been submitted. We were left with no option, and Gov. Obado can forgive us on this one. Therefore, we recommended that since the county government did not follow the Public Procurement and Disposal Act procedures, in using open tendering processes and submitting documents, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) should expedite investigations and prosecute those found to be culpable. Where is the malice that that the Governor was talking about in the newspapers? If he had convinced us we would have freed him; that is how Parliament works. I have been to the House of Commons and seen how it works there. I have been to the Congress and seen how the Public Accounts Committee works there. I have been to Poland, Canada, South Africa, Nigeria and almost everywhere. I am properly equipped not to be malicious. My integrity requires that we recommend that this man be prosecuted. Madam Temporary Speaker, since Sen. Wamatangi has walked in, and he is one of the most faithful Members of our Committee, I want to spare some little time for him to speak. However, he may not have much to say today because he is very excited. He has been given the responsibility of sitting in a Committee to decide how we shall nominate people to the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA). With those many remarks, I wish to second this Motion."
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