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    "id": 893974,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Seneta",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mary Yiane Senata",
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    "content": "(MCAs). We need to continuously think of capacity building for MCAs so that they can oversight these projects from their own wards. Madam Temporary Speaker, the other issue that this Bill gives emphasis on is the oversight role of the Senate. According to the Constitution, we need to have a framework. We also need to have timely information on each project that is supposed to be done by the county and the accountability aspect of it. We discussed the issue of Samburu County and I really sympathize with them. They have been put in an awkward situation of not having any authority in charge of the county. However, we also need to look at in another way. Corruption should be made very expensive. Citizens must feel that the Government is fighting corruption. They should not sympathize with a county governor who is charged in a court of law because of corruption cases. We have a situation where a certain group of citizens from a particular county has been mobilized to bless a governor who is facing a court case. This is because they want to make people believe that he or she is an innocent person. Therefore, what we need to do in this particular case, without paying a lot of attention to Samburu County, is to make the citizens of this country from all counties to believe in the projects that the monies have been allocated for. They need to know the amount of money that the county government spends and the standard of work that is done in the counties. The public needs to call for accountability. They should not be paid or given handouts so as to protect people in authority who misuse and misappropriate their funds. Madam Temporary Speaker, the other thing that I admire in this Bill is the issue of experts. You cannot do a proper audit of a project if you are not sure of how the money was spent and how the whole process was done. Therefore, there is need for people or institutions which are mandated to oversight to be capacitated and given timely information, so that oversight is done at the right time."
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