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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Linturi",
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        "legal_name": "Franklin Mithika Linturi",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker Sir, allow me to shed light on the issues that have been raised by Sen. Sakaja, although the reports of the Statements of the notice of Motion that I have just given are self-explanatory. It is true that the notice we have just given is on the financial inquiry of these three counties for the year ended 30thJune, 2014. I agree with him that it may appear difficult for the current Senate to give reports for all the 47 counties within the period of the next four years. It is not the fault of this Sessional Committee. In fact, this Committee has done its best because these are reports for the three county executives for three years within a period of less than three months. This is because I think this Committee was constituted at the beginning of this year. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have been having housekeeping meetings within our Committee and we tried to structure ourselves in terms of how we could expedite this process and report to this House. However, it is also important to understand the kind of challenges we have as a Committee. We are not trying to cry foul in any way, however, since the month of April, we gave notice to the country and the governors that we would be having inquiry meetings and we have all through expected them to appear. However, since we started our inquiries, very few governors have attended. I commend Governor Prof. Kibwana of Makueni County. When we were trying to come up with the programme, he was willing and he even requested that we schedule him as one of the first because he really wanted to engage with us. Mr. Speaker, Sir, today, we were supposed to have a sitting with the governor of Trans Nzoia County. To our dismay, whenever we ask the governors and give them enough notice to appear, they only write letters of regret 24 hours or less before the 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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