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    "id": 808650,
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    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Nuh",
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        "legal_name": "Junet Sheikh Nuh",
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    "content": "oversees state organs. The Senate oversees revenues allocated to county governments. Then you find one day on TV the Senate summoning NCPB and EACC. Those are State organs that are supposed to be overseen by the National Assembly. The Senate has no mandate in this Constitution to call NLC, EACC, NCPB. Those are State organs under this Constitution. They are not county organs. Those are not markets that are found in villages that you need to call the market inspector to ask him how much revenue he has collected or not collected. The Senate must know their role. I know the Constitution was new but now it is no longer new. The Constitution is almost 10 years old. We are even thinking of amending it so that we can make it better. If up to now they cannot understand their role, their mandate… I am told that these Regulations are supposed to give every Senator Kshs3 million. It cannot happen. I can tell you for free that it will not happen and it cannot happen. Every Senator should get Kshs3 million per constituency to oversee what? So, if I have eight constituencies in my county, that means Kshs24 million per year? That is so much money. They are thinking that because the National Assembly has the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF), they should also have some money. The NG-CDF is not our money. You know the way the courts and civil society activists fought us. We left it to a committee on the ground. They sit on their own. Actually, a Member of Parliament is not allowed to take NG-CDF proposals to the board. He will be chased away. They will tell you: “We can only receive proposals from the chairman and the fund manager.” Chairmen of NG-CDF are now so powerful that they do not even want to talk to Members of Parliament anymore. He can decide anything to do with that money. Here, they think because National Assembly has NG-CDF then they must get some money to loiter around the counties. We cannot allocate funds for ‘ tangatangaring ’. We can only allocate money for the purposes of doing good for the public and the country. They even went further and said that it is the National Assembly… We cannot deny our colleagues in the same Parliament funds, but those funds must be processed in accordance with the law and the Constitution. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I totally agree with what the Committee has recommended; that we should annul these Regulations because they are contrary to the law, the Constitution and the statutes. Senate can do better than that. They should stop calling organs of the national government. They should deal with county government issues. They have no business calling organs whose oversight mandate has been given to the National Assembly by the Constitution. With those remarks, I support."
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