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    "id": 1008945,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki",
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        "legal_name": "Kithure Kindiki",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and congratulations on your election as Deputy Speaker of the House. I stand to support the Motion by the Senator for Siaya, my learned senior, Sen. Orengo, to adjourn the House. I support the reasons advanced by the Mover of the Motion, which is to consult. The reason we must consult and do so soberly is because we are about to destroy the country. I say so because the consequences whereby we are going to entrench the marginalization that has affected this country for decades if not more than a century; those consequences will live for the next century or more. They look simple; somebody somewhere may be celebrating that your county is getting a few hundreds or millions of shillings at the expense of another county The people of Kenya should know and remind themselves that the only things that helped this country manage its politics and affairs for a while is devolution. That was what brought the Kenyan of the periphery to the centre. Today we are here talking about Tharaka Nithi, Isiolo, Kilifi, Marsabit, Mandera, Makueni and a few counties including Kisii and Nyamira. The same sword that will be used to deny any county even a shilling of what it got last year can be the sword that will be used some day in future, by a national Government that hates devolution, to slash money from each and every county. We must consult and I will oppose any attempt to remove even one shilling from the County of Tharaka Nithi and any other county in this country because I am both Senator for Tharaka Nithi and of the republic of Kenya."
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