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    "id": 893895,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/893895/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "The Governor of Nairobi. For the first time in the history of this country, the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) surcharged the account of a county. Where did that case go to? It just went quiet because we do not have the expertise. While I support this Bill, I do at times feel that as a Senate, we are helpless. We are not going to help our counties by doing the oversight that you and I are thinking of; making noise on public platforms. Governors are laughing at us. Recently, somebody told me that governors have identified us. They know the noise makers and the people who they can talk to. He told me that the governors will continue with their trade because we appear to do nothing other than make noise and that is a fact. We have to rely on Mr. Twalib Mbarak or Mr. Kinoti to do our work of identifying a governor who has bought ten homes or one who has been doing whatever he feels like. The Senate does not have a method of finding out that information before the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) yet we are ones who should be giving that information to the DCI. That paints a very bad picture about oversight in this country. The Division of Revenue Bill has a reduction of Kshs9 billion. How are you going to convince this country that we are not giving counties more than enough? If they do the cost of corruption in the 47 counties, it is equivalent to an economy of two counties. You can have Kshs2 billion in Samburu, Kshsx billion in Nairobi City County and a few in Mombasa County. When they come here, we clap, shake hands and laugh with them just for them to walk out of the Senate and do what they do best; business as usual. They open accounts where they feel like. They open commercial bank accounts. The Senators have not stopped the governors from opening 17 or 18 accounts in commercial enterprises. Why have we not regulated where they should bank their money? We should do that. I sat here and one lady from Bungoma County had withdrawn Kshs314 million from her personal account. We made noise but nothing happened. Shakespeare called this; much ado about nothing. That is what we have been reduced to. 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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