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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also support very strongly the Statement by the distinguished Senator for Vihiga County. There is always the temptation as the Senate Majority Leader says for people in Government to think that when there is an emergency, then accountability takes a back seat. They want to do things in a manner that is unaccountable and sometimes the end result is monstrous scandals and crimes. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when I heard the CS for the National Treasury and Planning say that he has spent Kshs40 billion on COVID-19 since it first hit the country, I was horrified because it amounted to almost Kshs1 billion expenditure daily. When you look around the country - I do not know about my colleagues’ counties - nobody in my county has received a single facemask, sanitizer or anything for free. In fact, when you go to the counties, what is more visible today are police roadblocks and not any issues that lead to fighting this pandemic. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to urge the Ad Hoc Committee for Sen. Sakaja - my distinguished nephew - to look into this matter, knowing that this country has now gone for one year without an Auditor-General. An Auditor-General is not just an office. I is a constitutional individual whose signature brings documents of audit to the Houses of Parliament. We have not had an Auditor-General for one year and there is nobody, other than the Houses of Parliament that must now carry out this audit. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, secondly, regarding the interventions that ought to be done, Sen. Sakaja’s Committee must bring to this House, tabulations on how much money has been spent in each and every of the 47 counties in the fight against this pandemic. We also want to know what interventions have been made. We all know that when such money is sent to counties, it becomes Appropriation-In-Aid (AIA) that must be appropriated by the county assemblies. We are not aware of any county assembly 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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