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    "id": 886464,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "of this financial year and next year. We, as a Senate, would like to go further to examine projects that are taking place in our counties. I looked at the reports of the Auditor-General that we have tabled here that will be examined by our Committee on County Public Accounts and Investments (CPAIC), I pleasantly saw that that the Auditor-General has now moved to telling us about project “x” and “y” in a certain corner of a county. In my county, for example, he identifies some staff that were employed six months during the campaign period. They were paid about Kshs5 million. The county government is not struggling to see what to do with it. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if county assemblies can work closely with us, we will not only deal with postmortem when it comes to resources of counties, but we will avert great danger that can occur in counties. This is because when it is closer to elections, it is now apparently clear that a lot of contractors are given huge projects and 10 per cent for those projects. After elections, those projects become white elephants. I urge Senators to be very keen with the Auditor-General’s report for 2017/2018 Financial Year because it was an overlapping year when it comes to elections. There was a lot of malpractice that took place. Some of the MCAs who I suspect are new have a great opportunity in the second term of devolution to look into that issue very critically. As for the students of the Institute of Diplomacy and International Studies, I think this is the right place they chose to be; a place of great debate. Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki used to teach that Institution. I was a beneficiary of a programme which was for University of Nairobi School of Law and the Institute of Diplomacy and International Studies, where I got the opportunity to train as a leader in Zanzibar University, University of Dar es Salaam, University of Arusha and Makerere University. Some of the things that we do now were planted in us. It was not by accident."
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