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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Pareno",
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        "legal_name": "Judith Ramaita Pareno",
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    "content": "service to the public. We are not saying that we should not have residences for our governors and speakers. We are not even saying that there should not be chambers. We should have chambers, houses, residences but not at the expense of development. We should have these residences and the chambers but not with exorbitant prices. That is all that this Senate, the CRA and the mwananchi are saying. There was an outcry from the citizens because they were saying they want to see development. If only they had brought water, done roads, schools and dispensaries; and if these were not done at exorbitant prices, I can assure you that the citizens would not have come out to cry and all of us would not have had to do a capping. Incidentally, in this country nobody seems to do things right. People have to be forced to do things right. We have had to come up with a capping for people to do things right. You have to keep checking otherwise there will be plunder on the money that is meant for development. Madam Temporary Speaker, I am also happy that there is a capping that the county government should ensure that the cost of the chambers should not go beyond a certain limit so that then we have a standard way of doing things. I am happy that this Committee and these recommendations are geared towards a standard way of doing things. This will ensure that we have standardized chambers in our county assemblies that are not too big or too small, depending on the number of MCAs. This will also ensure that we have standard residences so that we stop this wastage of public funds. It will not be a choice for one to decide how much they want to spend on constructing these residences, but there will be guiding principles to be followed. I am happy that this has come out clearly in this Report. What we need to do regarding this Report is to ensure that these recommendations are followed. Madam Temporary Speaker, I have kept talking about the Committee on Implementation. We keep saying that we need to follow up on whether these resolutions and recommendations are being followed up. We also need to communicate properly to the county assemblies that the capping is in place and that if they exceed the capping, it will be upon them to answer for it; they shall be held accountable. We need to communicate to counties that if they have already started construction of their chambers, residences or infrastructure and they have exceeded the limit, they will need to find a way of capping down to what has been recommended in the guidelines. After making these resolutions, we need to follow up to ensure that the capping and recommendations are being implemented down at the county assemblies. This will ensure that they start talking to their contractors and instruct them not go above these capping that has been set otherwise we will have to start holding them accountable."
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