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    "id": 1027125,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, when you tell me that you want to increase the parameter on agriculture to 12 per cent, from even one and yet statistically the Maputo Declaration puts it at 10 per cent, you will be taking money away from counties that have fewer households to counties that have more households. You are taking money away from Nairobi City and Mombasa counties. What this proposal, which is now being amended by the Majority Whip is doing, is dividing this country into two. When are we ever going to say that we are tired of people in Narok County being poor? We are tired of our brothers in Mandera and Wajir Counties losing their lives because of poverty, because development cannot get to them. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it behooves us as leaders for once to allow the doctrine of separation of powers to prevail and have a meaning in this country. This Senate with the indecisiveness that we have portrayed to the nation shows that we can never make a decision. We are being controlled by other forces out there. I would like to plead with my colleagues on the other side, and particularly those who are happy with the minimal gains that they are getting, to vote against this proposal by Sen. Kang’ata and support the one by our dear brother, Sen. Sakaja. Mr. Speaker, Sir, my biggest problem is this: If today we say we are postponing the issue for two years, Narok County will still lose money. If we say we run the second generation formula, we would have killed the process of us having a third generation formula. As a result, the CRA will run the fiscal effort afresh and we will lose money. We have to be very specific on exactly what is this that we are saying. The parameters as proposed by CRA were not the best but they had a rider. We came in with different proposals on how we can make it easy for this country. I have heard debate and arguments that the people in the North enjoyed money for a long time. However, those people have been discriminated against for many years."
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