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    "id": 905129,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I think going forward, the Committee on Public Accounts and Investments (CPAIC) should move from just auditing of the Auditor- General‟s reports to receiving budget reports from counties. Let us, as a Senate, audit every function and how it is funded so that we are able to ask ourselves the following questions: How much money has been set aside for purposes of children‟s welfare? How much has been set aside for agriculture in the counties? How much money has been put in health? What intervention has been done? This is so that we ask ourselves whether all counties are funding their functions or they are only funding areas that have money, deals and visibility which can bring votes. We know that street families do not even have IDs. It is very easy in a country in which politics drives what you want to do to and ignores those people because they do not bring votes. It is not about votes. It is a right we have established under this Constitution called a right based approach to development. If it is a right based approach to development, these rights must go to every person regardless of whether they have an ID or whether they vote in that area or not. Even more so, we profess in this nation that we are a religious people. We have just come from the Prayer Breakfast where we professed our faith in God and confessed our sins. We always acknowledge every year that we are corrupt and we get paid for every year. I saw some people making a lot of noise about the tweet by the ambassador of the United States of America (USA) where he said that we are congregating somewhere to pray for our sins of thievery. It is true. It is not the USA‟s Ambassador that announced that we are thieves. We are the ones who are always professing that corruption is in this country and we are stealing. No leader has ever come publicly to say that he is the thief. No individual has owned up to stealing anything. We would have laid hands on that person today. Everybody thinks the other one is a thief expect themselves. So it is laughable that people would complain about what the USA‟s ambassador said. There is nothing new he said. He just said what we keep saying, only that we like saying it in regards to the other person and the other person is saying it in regards to ourselves. We are all in this choir of: “This is a thief and the other person is a thief.”"
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