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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ochillo-Ayacko",
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        "legal_name": "Ochilo George Mbogo Ayacko",
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    "content": "county executives and that they have not been able to summon speakers and clerks of County Assemblies. Madam Temporary Speaker, you may have had the occasion to look at the newspaper today and other previous reports. You will see the kind of financial misbehavior by county assemblies. We have seen how Taita-Taveta County which is represented by Sen. Mwaruma is expending public resources that they do not have. We have seen how other counties spend monies they should have used for development on unnecessary activities. When they are asked to account for the same or when there is an attempt at counterbalance by the county executive, a threat of impeachment or a standoff, they decline to approve the budget. These are things that are happening. I wish to propose that, perhaps, in future, we should relook at the Constitution in terms of the constitution of Members of the County Public Accounts and Investments Committee (CPAIC) so that we have enough numbers that can be divided into subcommittees. This is to ensure that we have a subcommittee that gives attention to reports of the county assemblies. We should also have another subcommittee to give attention to reports of the county executives. Ultimately, as the Senate, we will satisfy ourselves that we carry out a thorough and comprehensive oversight report of activities that touch on all the funds given to our counties. That is the fourth yardstick used to assess whether we are effective in our oversight. Have we covered all the terrain, all the yardstick or all areas that we are expected to carry oversight on? If we have not, then it appears that our oversight is not comprehensive, timely and a few people depending on the constraint of work and our ability to cover the area escape and do not do what they are supposed to do. Madam Temporary Speaker, with those very many remarks, I want to conclude by commending the Committee for sitting for long hours and coming up with reports. I hope that Members of the Senate, including myself, will listen to the debate and hopefully the Senators whose counties’ accounts have been reported will be here to help us drill down the details of this matter. I thank you."
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