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    "id": 924696,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Langat",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13189,
        "legal_name": "Christopher Andrew Langat",
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    "content": "Thank you Madam Temporary Speaker, for allowing me to make comments on this very important Report. It is very important because the work of this Senate is to provide effective oversight. We can do that very well by regular examination of reports by the Auditor-General. Madam Temporary Speaker, our counties have got a lot of issues that need to be addressed, as they have been highlighted here very effectively. One of the issues is under- expenditure or low utilization of funds allocated for specific purposes. I have discovered that most of the counties do not adhere very correlatively to what is always passed by the county assemblies. You will find the governors doing their own work. Very interestingly in some counties, the Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) have become so much compromised that they cannot do oversight. The other issue that has been highlighted and which we have witnessed wherever we get out to our counties has to do with the outstanding bills. I have discovered that whenever we go around, some people complain based on the fact that immediately the new governors took over, they started heavily suspecting that some of the pending bills in various counties were not genuine. Consequently, they have subjected them to scrutiny on some issues that are not fair. For example, some of them have reassessed the roads they did two or three years ago. Those roads have become eroded again, such that as of now, they require further repair. Some of these contractors have been subjected to too much scrutiny, and most of them have become suspect and not been paid. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is high time we get proper legal frameworks from the Senate that will guide counties when addressing such issues. These contractors promote economic growth in our counties. Most of them took loans from banks to purchase equipment and machinery, which have since been seized by the banks. We must do something and take this Report seriously. Today, a Member of the National Assembly told me that we have failed to hold governors to account properly on what they collect from their counties. In the same Report, most of the governors have been questioned on why they are not remitting revenues to the various accounts. Most of them are spending the money on the spot, which has opened ways for corruption, Madam Governor. You can get some people even duplicating receipts."
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