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    "id": 1120421,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, first of all, those were points of argument. I would like to convince my colleagues that in the Senate, when we debate, you do not have to agree with what I am saying. Just because you do not agree with it, does not mean it is not right. You can have your opinion and I have mine. In my opinion, this is an extremely unfair way of identifying marginalised areas. There is what Article 204 says, and that is the first thing I said when I came up here. If you read the Report, it states how they came up with the marginalisation policy. They came up with it through bottoms-up. If you look at Page 6, it says- “Consistent to the principle of subsidiarity, the second marginalisation policy recommended a bottom-up approach in project implementation and recommends for the strengthening and rationalisation of implementation mechanisms.” We are talking about how to use regulations on the money, which is in billions, to sort out those areas that were identified in the marginalisation policy. In as much as what we are passing is the regulations, what are the regulations giving effect to? These regulations were gazetted. Even before the regulations, the marginalisation policy was gazetted. If the marginalisation policy is gazetted, it must come to the Committee on Delegated Legislation. Madam Deputy Speaker, you cannot say that because we are not talking about the marginalisation policy, but the regulations, to implement a bad thing. You did not look at the marginalisation policy. To me, this is abdication of work. The Committee should question what the regulations are meant to implement. I oppose because if we are talking about access to water. It might look like areas in Nairobi have access to clean drinking water, but they do not. Look at Nairobi River and what is happening in our counties where people are dying of cholera. The biggest cholera outbreak has been in Nairobi and not any other part of the country. I do not understand any method of identification. For the record, because I have seen which Senators are trying to intervene when it came to the matter of revenue sharing, I stood with counties. This is because I believe when it comes to resources, the counties that were marginalised deserved to get that money, I believe in one Kenya."
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