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    "id": 1120425,
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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": "Kindly ask Sen. Olekina to stop arguing from his seat. He will have his turn to speak and support or oppose this report. It is good that county governments have been brought on board. These projects will not be implemented by county governments, but the national Government within counties. There must be a different approach to how we sort out and bring people up to speed. As I said earlier, my issues of water in Nairobi need not just an intervention in Nairobi City County, but also in Murang’a where we have Ndakaini, Ndarugu River and the Northern Collector Tunnel. You might be sorting out the issue of access to water in Nairobi by creating an intervention in the next county. This is exactly what the principle of subsidiarity means. The principle of subsidiarity is simple; that a service is best offered at the lowest level compatible with the benefit area of that service. This is how we must be approaching development. This is development economics 101. When I accepted the first point of order, I was waiting for the Chairperson to convince me how you would ignore some areas like Nyalenda slum in Kisumu, where people there, lack access to basic things. Why do you think we have fires every two weeks in Nairobi, especially Mathare slum? It is because of lack of proper connectivity of electricity; such that people are going to get fake power connections and they are burning their houses; people are dying. Will you say there is electricity in Nairobi City County so we leave it? Is it proper? Is it affordable? The Equalisation Fund to some extent in those areas would have been subsidising electricity access in the slums. This is the creative way to look at it. Something can look like it has been provided, but is the benefit area compatible with that area enjoying the provision of the service?"
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