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"content": "I submit to this honourable House that the County Assembly allocates funds and then the Governor together with the County Executive Committee Members (CECM) is to be accountable for the management and use of the county resources. It is not the responsibility of the County Assembly to manage the resources. It is the work of the Governor together with the staff that the Governor supervises according to that section. Secondly, concerning the Meru County boards that have not been operational because they were not constituted, I submit that the County Assembly of Meru made various communications through the clerk of the County Assembly to the County Executive. That, they needed to submit documents to the County Assembly to enable it carry out its mandates, which were never received. Similarly, as I have said, it is the work of the County Executive to use the funds allocated well. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, and hon. Members, the third question is on the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the County Public Service Board (CPSB) and the County Secretary. These two offices in county public service have distinct functions. They board is mandated to recruit through interviews. After recruitment, it is the county secretary who deploys, supervises and does the other work. So, the two have distinct functions. It is only that they work very closely. The other question from Sen. Tabitha Mutinda is still on the chairperson of the board. I believe I have already submitted. That, it is the responsibility of the Governor of Meru County and the other officers to ensure the boards are legally constituted. It is not the duty of the County Assembly of Meru. Concerning the remedy about this issue, I have already submitted that the County Assembly has worked so hard to implore on the County Executive to carry out their mandate in order to make even our work as the County Assembly very easy. Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir."
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"speaker_name": "Sen. Wakili Sigei",
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"content": " Thank you. Hon. Members, you have 12 minutes remaining to conclude this session. Let us be mindful of time once you are allowed to seek your clarifications. Sen. Ledama and Sen. Tobiko."
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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I will start by asking the witness to clarify on her last submission, on the failure by the County Government to appoint people in these boards. I will take the witness to Volume 1B, page 53 and I do not know whether she has had a chance to look into it. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this issue of two minutes is doing us a big disservice. I would like her to tell me what page 53, 57, 58, 60, 61, 62, 65 and page 67 of the Governor’s response, Vol 1B in terms of the responsibility of the County Assembly when it comes to the issue of confirming those nominees. Did the County Assembly ignore the request by the County Executive to confirm it? Refer to those and tell us what that equates to. Secondly, I would like to understand whether impeachment equates to oversight. In her submissions when she was being taken through her video No. 17, she was asked by her lawyer in her evidence in chief, what she meant by, it is in the business of the Assembly to impeach. She changed her mind and then later on said that it is the business of the County to oversight. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "Finally, and this is important and I also hate the fact that we have little time, on the issue asked by Sen. M. Kajwang’ in terms of the documents presented, what should the Executive do if the County Assembly fails to approve the nominees. Do those departments stay without being operational?"
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"content": " Sen. Peris Tobiko?"
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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I am curious and I wanted the hon. MCA to confirm to us when it was she started feeling insecure so as to have a CCTV in her home and for how long she has had a watchman in her home. She should also confirm that the video we watched of a small portion of her home burning is from a CCTV download because not many Kenyans do have that level of security apparatus. Secondly, of the County Assembly’s bundle of documents, we were referred to page 31 of 173, which had a list of directors. Those directors are low in scale, but act as directors. Have they attached letters of appointments for those directors for the Senate to confirm?"
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"content": " Proceed to answer those questions."
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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. On the first issue with the Governor’s documents, Volume I, it is true that there are some nominees that were forwarded to the County Assembly for vetting. However, immediately the nominees were forwarded for vetting, the Clerk of the County Assembly through a letter in our Volume II, page 61, wrote back to the County Executive and requested for more information and clarification regarding the existence of vacancies in the offices within which the nominations were being made."
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"content": "On a point of Order, Mr. Temporary Speaker Sir."
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"content": "Sen. Wakili Sigei): Sen. Olekina?"
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