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    "id": 1027120,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Linturi",
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        "legal_name": "Franklin Mithika Linturi",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this amendment. I am one of the happiest Senators this evening after defeating the adjournment Motion because it is said that as leaders, we had better make wrong decisions than fail to make any at all. For whatever it is - and I do not know the outcome of this debate - I will go home knowing very well that the matter of the formula will have been decided in whichever way. To me, that will be very good progress. Mr. Speaker, Sir, realities must be spoken, and we must always be ready to tell the truth. We also say that cowards die many deaths before their actual death. Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., you better listen to this because I have heard you say that we want to slaughter you and we should do it now. My brother, I am very confident and happy that because of the kind of optimism that you invite your death today, I will be naïve to give you palliative care when you are terminally ill. You better go now than sit in the hospital continually and continue eating our money. Today, I want to remind the Members of this House that we cannot run away from our constitutional duty of passing a formula for whatever it is; we must do it. Since we must do it, we should be in a position to think about these issues and think of a greater Kenya. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I stand here to speak clearly because I am proud to have come from Meru County. The region that many people would like to intimidate and blackmail throughout by imputing, or telling us that we have sat on them for a very long time. The poor people in Meru, Chuka, Timau, Kangeta and everywhere else, feel the same pain as the people in Kwale, Kisumu or anywhere else. When there is a proposal on how to share resources for this country for service delivery for health, water or agriculture and the bearing of the formula is based on the people that deserve those resources, it must be clear in our minds that all of us cannot be the same at the same time. Parameters used for allocating money have changed. For that reason, there will be changes. When we are discussing this matter, let us be honest with ourselves. Let us be candid because we do not want to start rubbing wounds, have had an opportunity to benefit from a formula that has disadvantaged other people for a very long time; and we cannot speak about it because we are afraid of being associated with people that are said are powerful. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when I speak here or when anybody else coming from a county that deserves so much money and has not been getting it going to his county, we must bear that we have a responsibility to push money for allocation of resources to the people that we represent. Cognizant of the fact that we must always be able to compromise; a compromise has been agreed upon. A proposal has been brought before this House by the Majority 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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