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    "id": 943999,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kibiru",
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        "legal_name": "Charles Reubenson Kibiru",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, all the issues of monies begin with procurement. Could it be that we have put in so many bureaucracies in the regulations on procurement that we have created an enabling environment for the procurement staff to have loopholes on how to get money? Anywhere the national Government is procuring, that is a fertile ground for corruption and fraud. We need to look at the laws and ask ourselves: Could we be putting stringent measures that are creating the enabling environment? We have the engineer or the quantity surveyor who prepares the bill of quantities. In that process, what are the checks and balances? Secondly, do we need to give two people in the county tenure of office; the CEC Finance or Head of Treasury and the Procurement officer? These people are at the whim of the governors. The governor will direct that a process goes a certain way by all means. Since they are employees, they are at the whims of the governor. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I conclude, I would like to state that we have a lot of work to do. If we want devolution to work and services to be felt on the ground, we need to rethink widely and domesticate some of the laws that we have borrowed heavily from other jurisdictions. If we do so, the Senate will be protecting the counties. I beg to support."
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