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    "id": 902925,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Seneta",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 611,
        "legal_name": "Mary Yiane Senata",
        "slug": "mary-yiane-senata"
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    "content": "It becomes easy for the citizens to be served when the offices are in a centralised place. When in a governor‟s office or the deputy governor‟s office, an officer from any other department can be called to assist you if their offices are in the same place. In that case, one can get services at the right time. I think that this recommendation was biased. All county governments should have been given some money. I want to urge my colleague, Sen. Omogeni, to recommend that the Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations visits the counties. He should have proposed the creation of an ad hoc Committee to assist the Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations. This is because the Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations cannot visit all the 47 counties. These Committees should not follow the implementation of the previous report. Instead, they should ascertain the status of the infrastructure of our counties. They should also look at the budget allocations for infrastructure and establish how much they have spent from what they were given. We need to know the reason why Nyamira County, for example, does not have a county headquarters. How can we have a governor with several CECs without offices? We should be told about the offices that they use to offer services to the citizens and what happened to the little budget that was allocated. The Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations will now have a lot of work for we need to know the status of our counties. The Senate is here to protect the interest of counties, but how do we protect the interest of counties that do not have offices and are using the little money that we give them to rent offices. They already have a cut budget and use the little money given to them to pay their staff and rent. How can they get money for development? All counties should have been given money for the headquarters for us to reduce the budget for renting offices. 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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