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    "id": 924667,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, the Senate is doing something noble by wanting resources to go to the counties, as it must if devolution has to succeed. However, the way some of the governors are managing counties, despite these laws, is like someone running their homestead. If you want a homestead to be run on a sound basis, you will have some internal rules and regulations. Madam Temporary Speaker, if you go to the offices of many governors, you will find some of them with 2,000 procurement files. This is because no procurement can be done successfully without a governor putting his or her hand on it. They are not required to take part in procurement; that is the law. Yet you will find that if you want a road built anywhere, the governor should be the one to decide who gets the contract for that road. He can distribute it in any way he or she likes. That is happening everyday in this country. We respect governors, but the law is not supposed to work that way. In democracies that work and economies that succeed, these laws are critical. Madam Temporary Speaker, I know that we will pass this Motion. This Report should be made available to every county. There should be some engagement with the counties, especially with county treasuries and more particularly with the governors and Council of Governors (CoGs). Sen. M. Kajwang’, we should look for a meeting to discuss this report with the governors. It may be one of those reports that we throw into the shelves. It is work already done. We pass it, but it has no legal basis upon which it can be complied with. However, my discourse in this matter is obedience to the laws that are in place. We have made these laws complicated. In earlier times, Government financial regulations were not as complicated. In the first 10 years of independence, before we knew how steal Government property, including money, people worked with basic 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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