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    "id": 893706,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "absence of information provides good ground for misinformation. Therefore, without Senators knowing the exact amount and when it was released to their specific counties, it becomes a great hindrance to our work. We look forward to a time where in our pigeon holes and even on these tablets, we shall be able to access this information. When I go to Kericho tomorrow, I can confidently ask my governor to tell me what he has done with the money he has received this Financial Year 2018/2019. For example, I would ask him, out of the Kshs7 billion he received, what has he done with it? Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is how we expect our Committees to work. I look forward to a time where each and every Committee will be responsive to issues that affect the operation of Members. During our consultations as Members of this House, we felt that the current system being used was not sufficient in terms of holding governors to account. This is because we have to wait for a report from that particular Committee to know the challenges and the issues our counties are facing. It was a feeling of many of us that if we are to device a better system, where on the particular day when your governor appears before a particular Committee, you take the lead in the process. For instance, my good friend, Sen. Wambua sits in that particular Committee and my governor is giving a defense of things that he has done in Kericho, he will be disadvantaged because he is not conversant with the geographical area. We need to reform on how we can hold individual governor to account, specifically by the Senator of that particular county taking the lead in interrogation. As it is right now, we are still looking into the operations of 2014/2015 and 2015/2016 financial years. That means that if a governor was elected in 2017, there is a very high likelihood that he will lose his seat in 2022 without coming to this House to answer some audit query bordering on misappropriation of public resources. In conclusion, Sen. Fatuma Dullo brought up the issue of leased medical equipment. We have heard different stories about it. Are we, as a House, saying that we are unable to resolve this issue? The other day when the Minister came here, we left this House knowing that there were issues to do with that particular programme. Why do we continue to sit here pretty, each and every afternoon without giving a proper justification? That issue needs to be addressed. With those many remarks, I congratulate the Chairman for the good work."
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