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    "id": 871665,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
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        "id": 129,
        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "These are exhibitional trappings of power that are not in sync with devolution. A governor should be a person that should ordinarily appear in homes, be in fellowship with communities; churches, without showing the trappings of power in huge convoys. I think one the key failures we have experienced in the first 6 years or so of devolution, is that governors want those institutions to be reflected in the manner in which the presidency operates. If you read the Constitution, the Presidency is a representation of many other things which the county governors do not qualify to do. Therefore, I hope this committees should be able to look at the way governors and county governments operate. Are they people-friendly or are they are just another institution through which an imperial structure which we did away with under this Constitution has been retained at the county? I urge the County Public Accounts and Investment Committee (CPAIC) where Sen. M. Kajwang is the Chair and Sen. Olekina is a Member that, counties, just like the national Government, must operate within the Public Finance Management Act. The Act stipulates how county funds should be managed and county assemblies have a role. However, most of the time, there are constant violations of the Act. These things only come to light when there is a big problem not just in the loss of funds, but in the way finances of the counties are managed. We should have a way of tracking how decisions are made in the area of procurement which falls, to some extent, within the domain of the management of county finances. Therefore, I hope that we do not just look at the reports from the Auditor- General who is an instrumentality of Parliament; the National Assembly and the Senate. He acts as an agent of these two institutions to enable us to undertake or play the role that is enumerated by the Constitution. Therefore, we should go beyond the report of the Auditor-General and look at the operations of counties. It is my hope that, this time round, CPAIC will look for innovative ways to ensure that reports come to us within reasonable time as contemplated by the Constitution. In any case, not beyond 12 months after every financial year that is being audited. I know it The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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