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    "id": 921844,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank Sen. Cheruiyot for the reminder of sitting outside the precincts of Parliament. In our schedule, we will visit a minimum of five counties. We have already planned those visits. On 3rd September, 2019, we will visit Kwale County. On 4th September, 2019, we will be in Mombasa County. We will do Machakos, Kitui and Makueni when the Senate goes to mashinani. We would wish to do more of these counties away from the Senate precincts. Sometimes the challenge is that of backlog. However, we believe that we will be more effective if we go to the counties. In terms of a better oversight mechanism, I still believe that CPAIC by its very nature is a mortician because we do a lot of postmortem examination. I still want to convince the House that we should not drop that idea to have a proactive monitoring and evaluation arrangement that can enable our committees and individual Senators to be able to look at disbursements going into their counties, the budgets, and the utilization. We should also not drop that business of the County Development Boards. I have submitted a legislative proposal that we set up County Leaders Forum so that Senators are also made aware of some of the goings on in their counties. We realized that Senators discover certain things only when matters are brought by the Auditor-General before the CPAIC. Let us not rob that idea for a monitoring and evaluation framework."
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