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    "id": 932686,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "enterprises in terms of theft of public resources. It is amazing that a governor can authorise collection of statutory remittances or deductions and fail to remit to the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF), the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) and other statutory bodies. Worst still, governors collect money in terms of taxes, levies and cess and spend it directly without depositing it. The money is supposed to be deposited before it is processed for use. Thirdly and lastly is the issue of white elephants. It is what Sen. (Dr.) Langat alluded to where projects that were started by the first batch of governors who did not make it for the second time have entirely stalled. I will speak about projects in Kitui. All the projects that were incomplete before the previous general election have stalled and there is no word from the county government as to whether monies will be committed to complete them. We have scenarios where white elephants are started all over the country. We have heard that white elephants in the counties account for more than Kshs360 billion. This is serious wastage. In fact, it is a lot more money than the monies we are allocating to counties for a whole financial year. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for us to be taken seriously as a Senate - and I want the Committee to hear this - we cannot be talking about white elephant projects running into hundreds of billions of shillings and still continue to allocate monies to these counties. Going forward I propose that all governors appearing before the County Public Accounts Investment Committee (CPAIC) should adduce their evidence on oath. Secondly, those governors who repeatedly refuse to appear before CPAIC, their counties or their governments should be struck off the list of the disbursement schedule. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it cannot be that the Senate will continue giving money to counties, but governors do not want to account on how they are using those monies allocated to them. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I support."
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