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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "been paid, the second and third contractors were paid and yet it has not started. These are things that are outright. If we ultimately come here and then the report of Elgeyo Marakwet says it is now clear--- You know that I was a Member of that Committee, courtesy of your leadership. For the first one year when I sat in that Committee, one of the things that used to baffle me is that the Chair stands, asks the question, and then asks the Auditor-General whether that issue has been cleared. The Auditor-General then says that it has been cleared, and then we say proceed. Nobody is even challenging to ask the Auditor-General whether they have seen the building, whether it is complete; and what he means by saying it has been cleared. This is because many of the initial audited reports are correct. However, the intervening period between the auditing and the ultimate clean report is where the devil lies. More than three counties in this Republic got unqualified audited reports, including Machakos, Nyandarua and Makueni. There is no county that should get unqualified reports, even if I was a governor of a county. It is impossible! We are actually lying to the people of Kenya that we have unqualified reports. This is because the people who are running counties are not angels. If the governor does not make a mistake, then a CEC, a Chief Officer, a mini parastatal in the county or a town municipal board will make mistakes. You cannot tell me that we have counties in this Republic of Kenya where there is cleanliness from “A” to “Z”. The only truth in that unqualified report is that these reports, in paper, are doctored and made to be clean. Do you want to tell me that, therefore, the CPAIC cannot summon those counties because the report is unqualified? I refuse to accept that! I like the fact that the Committee is now sitting in counties. We need to go a step further and listen to the alternative reports that are coming from the citizens of this Republic. In one of the unqualified county reports, it was indicated that Kshs50 million went to an Early Childhood Development (ECD) project. When a proper research was done on that report, they found out that there was no ECD or structure on the ground. We might be challenged to go further. I am saying this because this is a Committee that changes every year, it might change next year. I am not casting aspersions on the current membership of the Committee. Even as Senators, we must be able to sit down and ask ourselves how best we are going to work to ensure that accountability will be achieved in this country. This will ensure that we do not find ourselves in a situation where we have to depend on the DCI and the Ethics Anti- Corruption Commission (EACC) and yet this Senate is saying we are oversighting and we have absolutely no single indictment on anybody including those that have been found to have stolen directly a lot of money in the Republic of Kenya. With those many remarks, I beg to support."
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