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    "id": 969495,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Peter Wanyama",
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    "content": "complaint before the House, you can see the footprints of the Governor; that you can see these tenders. Remember these tenders were not given to us. When you examine the tenders, you can see the nexus between them and the Governor. You will need testimony from the Director of Procurement, since he is the person in charge. If you look at the independent mechanism in each county public finance management works and county procurement, you will need the evidence of a procurement officer or director of procurement to tell us the status of procurement in Kiambu County, and how it is done and influenced. Without that evidence, how can you make a conclusion that the Governor breeched the provisions of the PFM Act? In addition there are other adequate mechanisms. If you look at the Public Finance and Management Act, the Governor is only mentioned three times. There is a complete regime for public finance management, where the ultimate accountability and responsibility lies with the Chief Officer, Finance and the County Executive Committee Member for Finance. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you look at the provisions of the PFM Act, they have the express statutory obligation regarding management of public funds. The Governor is the only a political head. If you look at Article 185(3) of the Constitution, the County Assembly has powers to do oversight over the County Executive. We could see from the testimony of the star witness, who was witness No.1, that there appears to be no engagement between the County Assembly of Kiambu and the County Executive regarding the status of public finance management in the county. Whose failure is that in terms of oversight when there is failure of oversight by the County Assembly? In terms of oversight, why can they not oversight first and ask questions? Where are these summonses which they send pursuant to the provisions of the Constitution? Remember, a county assembly has full powers under the sun to summon anyone to appear before it to answer questions on county public finance management. Where is this evidence that they have attempted to undertake these investigations and have made recommendations which have been ignored by the County Executive and, therefore, they can now proceed to undertake the precipitate action of impeachment? Mr. Speaker, Sir, to me impeachment is a precipitate action as opposed, in this case, to a kneejerk reaction. It is a precipitate action which requires a methodical presentation of issues. You must satisfy this Senate that you have attempted to do what you can do, and you have hit the dead end as the County Assembly. Therefore, you are left with no option but to impeach the political figurehead, who is the County Executive."
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