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    "id": 943173,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we were able to confirm some of the charges that were brought before us. I heard people speak and make light of some of the charges, yet they are not. It is not easy to say that for an entire two years, a governor has not submitted the annual report on implementation status of the county policies. How can you not tell the representatives of the people who elected you into office what you are doing as a county governor? That is not right and it cannot be entertained. When we looked at the provision in the County Governments Act, it is only a principle but it does not have a measure of guilt or punishment for a particular county governor if they do not observe this requirement. The Senate must stand and make our position firmly known about it because county governors must be held accountable by the county assemblies. The governors must appear before the county assemblies and present a report on the policies that the county government adheres to in the county annual State of the County Address. If President Uhuru Kenyatta can find time out of his busy schedule to address Parliament at least once every year, surely, Gov. Samboja, he who can find an afternoon to go and deejay at a radio station, should find one afternoon and address the County Assembly of Taita Taveta. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Paragraph 177 answers what Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., was talking about. We recommended that there be mediation but did not place it on a particular committee."
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