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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ochillo-Ayacko",
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        "legal_name": "Ochilo George Mbogo Ayacko",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for the opportunity to speak. This House has a very onerous responsibility to oversight and ensure that public funds are properly used, as allocated to counties by us. We also have a responsibility to ensure that members of the public in the counties that we represent get value for the money that they give us the privilege to allocate to them. This duty is constitutional and constitutional duties are solemn duties. Madam Temporary Speaker, as representatives of counties, we have been lampooned, lambasted and attacked both by the Executive and by our younger sister House, the National Assembly. This is because of sitting on our laurels as money is lost or plundered by those to whom we give such monies annually to expend on our behalf, and to do development in the counties we represent. It has been said that we sit here idling and insisting that more monies be allocated to counties, yet we do nothing when there is evidence of enormous wastage of the resources that we allocate. Therefore, I want to take this opportunity to congratulate the CPAIC, led by Sen. M. Kajwang’, who is my neighbor. We share Lake Victoria, we share ‘Subaism,’ and also very many other things. I also want to congratulate the galaxy of Members of the CPAIC for coming up with a Report that has now occasioned or triggered the debate that will hopefully culminate in oversight. Madam Temporary Speaker, if you look at oversight of parliaments, the effectiveness of such oversights is premised upon the timeliness within which the oversight is carried out. Unfortunately, we have not been timely or expeditious. If we were to be appraised or assessed on the score of being expeditious and timely, we do not rate very well, but there is room for improvement. I am saying so, so that my colleagues, led by Sen. M. Kajwang’ and future colleagues who will continue in this very lovely Committee will understand that we need timely and expeditious generation of reports. That is so that we tighten the noose round the necks of the thieving governors and county executives, including assemblies. We need to do that, and we are happy that something has been done. I know that the Committee has good reasons for the delay, but I hope that there is room for improvement so that we are current when it comes to carrying out this function. Madam Temporary Speaker, another parameter upon which to assess the effectiveness of oversight is compliance. When reports are churned out – reports that indict, sanction, and propose or prefer sanctions against wayward public officials, we 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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