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    "id": 1027113,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, therefore, I am opposed to this amendment because we are merely postponing a problem. If we go by the amendment being proposed by Sen. Kang’ata, it means that my people of Nyamira are only going to postpone this problem for two years, but it will come back to haunt us. There is no way I will watch somebody who represents our Head of State, who we are proud of, and who is behind the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI), but comes to this Floor and threatens the same BBI by the President. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if we love this country, we must move together. Moving together means that we must care about the interests of the 47 counties. It does not make any of us, as Senators, proud that we take money from Turkana, Mandera or Nyamira and give it to another county. That does not advance the dreams of our two principals, President Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta and the former Prime Minister, Raila Amollo Odinga. The only concern for some of us here is that we should not cause pain to any Kenyan by reducing the allocation of funds that we give to those counties. What this proposed amendment by Sen. Kang’ata implies is that “Yes, we are going to starve you of finances, but we will allow you to smile for two years, then you will start mourning for another three years.” That is not something I can support as the Senator of the County of Nyamira!"
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