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    "id": 815139,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources. But, we leave that to the Senate. There are very many issues pertaining to loss of public funds in the counties. The recent directive by His Excellency the President on stalled projects is an example. The counties had the largest turnover of governors who lost the elections. There are very many stalled projects across all the counties. Nobody has been able to oversight and ensure that those projects are completed. That is because our Senators are now busy running after the KPLC, the KPC and Ruaraka instead of going to oversight what is provided for by the Constitution under Article 96(3) - that the Senate will oversight monies allocated to county governments. If they did that, I am sure those people could be busy 365 days in a year. The only problem is that the other House, with all due respect, tends to be very idle. They sit only one, two or three sittings a week; they are not busy the rest of the time. They need to take cue from what we have done as the Budget and Appropriations Committee (BAC). With the support of this House, we have allocated money this Financial Year for their monitoring and evaluation as much as we are waiting for regulations on how they will utilise that money. Theirs is to use that money to offer meaningful oversight over resources that have been allocated to the county governments and leave this other work to the National Assembly and the other agencies of Government. With that, I state that matters that touch on Money Bills, as the BAC, we shall never allow anything to emanate from the Senate and come to this House. We must remain true to the Constitution so that all those things that relate to Money Bills emanate from this House. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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