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"content": "opportunity like no other county in Kenya to grow your own-source revenue because of the God-sent gift of Lake Victoria. I will be appealing to the Senate to allow the Senators of these counties for a trip to either Finland, Estonia, Sweden or Norway. They will see how they play with their lakes. When I was last in Estonia many years ago, one of the things you cannot afford to leave is that because you have a Schengen visa, they allow you to keep on shifting between Estonia, Finland and Norway without any disturbance. You pay a small fee for the cruise ships and those ships have capacities of 400 to 800 people. They are forever full with the little money they make there. They have perfected the blue economy there in terms of transport. Madam Temporary Speaker, I believe and pray that you, leaders from those counties, will take advantage of Lake Victoria. We would like to see cruise ships from Kisumu to Homa Bay, to Kendu Bay, to Sio Port, to Port Victoria, to Entebbe, to Bukavu and to Mwanza. You will make billions of shillings out of own-source revenue. That is the route to go. Do not fight for the little Kshs2 billion that this Senate wants to give. I also agree with the Senator for Homa Bay when he said that we should start fellowships amongst counties. We can start a fellowship with Vihiga, Taita Taveta, Homa Bay, Kakamega and Marsabit counties; where we have serious mineral resources. We will demand that we want affirmative action. The amount of gold in Kakamega is so serious that the President in his wisdom and Government have decided that for all the gold that will be mined in Kakamega, in all the gold mining counties of Kenya and in all the gold mining countries of East Africa, the refinery will be built at Muritambisa in Ikolomani and that construction is ongoing. Madam Temporary Speaker, we need to speak louder to this because, the old leadership wants to confine us in small talk like the talk of Kshs405 billion when we should be talking about bigger resources we can share as a Republic. On the issue of sharing, if they make us to think small, they will disrupt our thinking big. Why not sit our governors or take over as governors and think big, the way in 1965, Singapore thought big? They had a small economy, but because of thinking big, they made simple decisions of governance. Like in human resource, the President said; we are not going to hire you for any other reason, but we will hire you because of competence. Kenya today is like many other failing African countries. We shortchange professionals so as to hire relatives or friends. The end result is that our professionals who are denied promotions become disenfranchised and they do not perform."
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"content": "Today we have got a great chance. We have got over 40 universities churning out young and brilliant professionals. I dream and hope to live to see a country where a youth can apply for a job online and because of their academic excellence, they defeat the son of Dr. Khalwale whom they beat at the university, even when Dr. Khalwale is the Senator for Kakamega, and they get a job ahead of mine. I say that with equal appliance to children of Senators in this House today. The same should apply to all Cabinet Secretaries and even the President. We want our children to compete equally because if a child is good, he or she is good. Sen. Osotsi, it should be like running a 100-metre race. You either run under 10 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": "seconds because you are Ferdinand Omanyala or not. Let our children compete. That is the essence of fairness. Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to beg the Senate Majority Leader. Senate Majority Leader, you have been persuasive two times during your contributions about rewarding performance. I agree that is the way it should be. However, you are dealing with crooks. This is not the first time we have tried to recognise and reward fiscal effort, but you know how they responded. When they discovered that we were using own-source revenue, they started showing to have improved from the previous to the current year, so as to attract that money. How do they do that? If a county has a potential of raising, for example, Kshs300 million and the following year they end up raising Kshs700 million, you have no choice, but to say that they did well even when they were misappropriating money because that county may have a potential of collecting over Kshs700 million. Therefore, they give a lower figure, which they can achieve to continue conning all of us. We are dealing with Kenyans; people with no integrity whatsoever. How such criminals found themselves in places of high calling---"
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"speaker_name": "Sen. Munyi Mundigi",
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"content": "Hoja ya nidhamu, Bi. Spika wa Muda. Ningependa Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale atueleze nani anaita crooks katika kaunti 47 nchini Kenya. Je, ni Maseneta, Magavana au Wabunge wa Bunge la Taifa? Asidhani kuwa hatujui maanake Kiingereza tunakielewa vizuri sana."
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"speaker_name": "Sen. Mumma",
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"content": " Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, who are crooks?"
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"content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, unless you are a visitor in Jerusalem, there are no angels in positions of leadership. That is why we dealt with several cases of impeachment in a short time. That is why this House has a record of about 13 cases of impeachments attempts. It is usually---"
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"speaker_name": "Sen. Mumma",
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"content": " Just name who the crooks are."
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"content": "Crooks are leaders who are elected into office, but they have no integrity. If you want to give me an opportunity to name them, let me do so next time round, so that I come with a substantive Motion."
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"speaker_name": "Sen. Mumma",
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"content": " When is that?"
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"speaker_name": "Sen. Methu",
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"content": "On a point of information."
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