{"id":751059,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/751059/?format=json","text_counter":985,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"obviously been carried out in life and demonstrated in this House. We founded with him the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and learnt a lot of lessons from that experience. Those lessons formed our attitude and orientation to politics since then. However, the SDP remains a party that shook former President Moi and made him seek alliances outside Kenya African National Union (KANU). That paved a way for the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) which took over in the election of December, 2002. The second person I want to thank in the Kenya Airways Committee is my dear friend Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., a formidable young Senator who took over from his father, another formidable debater and leader. Sen. Mutula Kilonzo has lived to our expectations and will continue to do so; and of course, my dear friend Sen. Orengo with whom I have been in politics for a long time in the second liberation - one of the “young turks” - is definitely coming back to this House. Sen. Orengo went to Siaya County for three days and was definitely elected to come back to this House by the people of Siaya County. I want to salute Sen. Orengo, one of the co-chairmen of the NASA coalition together with my dear friend, Sen. Muthama. Wherever he is today, I salute him and I thank him for having led the Legal Sub-Committee of our select Committee very well. Sen. Hassan of Mombasa County, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale of Kakamega County, Sen. (Dr.) Zani and Sen. Karaba, all of whom were in the Select Committee and did a formidable job. As a Chairman of the County Public Accounts and Investments Committee, this Committee has in no way been an adversarial Committee as people would think. Indeed, the Standing Orders of that Committee require that when a Governor appears before the Committee, the Senator for that County must be present. The fact that we have had some very tough discussions in the Senate should not lead anybody to propose that a Senator from a county should not question his governor when he comes to the Senate. This is the practice all over the world even in the USA. The person who knows a county best is the Senator and, therefore, an accountability committee like the County Public Accounts and Investments Committee should have the Senator of that County there to have the occasion to question his governor. However, it must be done with civility and decorum that is required of the Senators. We also expect the governors to behave with decorum and civility and not to take questions that are asked too personally. I take exception to the Governor of Murang’a, Mwangi Wa Iria, who behaved in a manner unbecoming of a leader and really embarrassed us. I do believe that governors can take tough questions when they are asked and not personalise them to Senators. Sen. Kembi-Gitura was very civil, but unfortunately, the governor interpreted civility as being adversarial. We are in no way adversarial and I am quite sure those who will succeed me as Chair of that Committee will continue with the tradition. The coming Senate must look at a particular problem in counties; that is, a bloated workforce. As I stand here today, the optimum workforce in my County, Kisumu is 2,700. Kisumu County Government has hired 4,000 people to work in that county and the governor continues to hire more as I speak today. Some of this hiring is purely on political grounds."}