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    "id": 975225,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Zani",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Agnes Zani",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, it was only last week on the Floor of the House, that you talked about several counties where their finance offices had been burnt down. The finance officers suggesting that this is another effort to conceal some of the operations in those offices. This is sad remembering why we had devolution and that most of the people who voted for this Constitution voted for it because of the component of devolution. People felt that when things were centralized, some of their services and money was not going right up to their communities; and that this could be solved through devolution. Yes, we have been going to various conferences, and you hear that there has been development that devolution has brought to the counties. However, they steal a lot of money. The County Public Accounts and Investments Committee (CPAIC) has been calling various State players, asking about this money; cross checking and trying to find out where the money has gone.The suspicion is that the money has gone into people’s pockets, despite being envisaged that it will be manifested in the patterns of lifestyle that those people tend to have. Human beings tend to exhibit the money that they have by buying certain things such as expensive cars, houses and all sorts of things and different properties because they have the money. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is possible to ascertain the ability of somebody’s buying power. If it is known that this is a civil servant and he earns this amount of money, then it is possible to simply just go and do a lifestyle audit to see whether he is spending far more than what he earns.Then he has to be asked the critical questions,“Where is this extra money that you are spending coming from?” The cases are many; we have seen even at the level where they have gone to court, we find very glaring stories being explained about how money was being carried in sacks from one place to another;and people who were hairdresser now suddenly having a lot of money."
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