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    "id": 989990,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Zani",
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        "legal_name": "Agnes Zani",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I also wish to congratulate the petitioners because they have had confidence in bringing their Petition to the Senate. I think this Petition from Narok County could just be a petition from any other county. As this Committee embarks on its work, maybe they could have an expanded mandate about projects that are promised and not actualized. Payments have been made, yet work has not been done. This runs across the issue of transparency and accountability, which even in our second phase of devolution, is the same issue that keeps coming up over and over. By the petitioners bringing this Petition to the Senate, they hope that they will have sufficient answers for the questions that they have raised. For a long time, open governance and open governance partnerships are very critical. Let me stress on the issue of transparency and accountability. Adequate provisions have been put in the Constitution, specifically on the County Integrated Development Programme (CIDPs) and the need for them. Indeed, even in the County Governments Act, 2012 to ensure that county governments can indicate the projects that they want to have, there is a system to ensure that these have been--- First, they indicate the sort of projects they want to have and then have in place a system to ensure that these have been done, including the oversight from the county assemblies, and also enabling public participation from these counties. Mr. Speaker, Sir, even as I speak, it is unfortunate that we still do not have this Bill in place. I think we did everything that we could as the Senate. We know that sometimes public participation is not done in the specified way. It is high time that we ensured that money that goes to the counties is used for the intended purpose. This is because if we do not put in place a deterrent, we might be saying this in the next two or 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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