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    "id": 1120451,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 407,
        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "money was utilized, those people who built hospitals, sunk boreholes and built roads were never paid. Those are Kenyans; they are business people who are trying win tenders so that they can proceed. The second policy was supposed to give Narok County about Kshs1 billion. I will be happy if a child in Mosiro has electricity and access to drinking water. However, that child is not having access to that drinking water because we are now trying to differentiate between poverty and marginalization. I do not subscribe to the school of thought that people should be poor, but if you live in a slum area it is the national Government and the county government which ensure that you have got those basic services. It will take you eight hours to access some areas in Kajiado West in Kajiado County because of poor roads. Those people are marginalized. They have no access to anything. So, should we be arguing here and saying that a City like Nairobi which in the last year there have been about six or seven new hospitals that have been opened by the President at night----. Nairobians can go to those hospitals. Did we allocate any money for those hospitals to be built? No. That is why the framers of the Constitution thought about those people who may not have that influence to be able to win a tender and ensured that money is set aside for them so that they can get those services. When I read this Constitution, I am happy that it talks about 24 delegations to be able to approve this. I want to beseech my good friends that yes, I hear you and I feel your pain. I feel the pain of Mama Mboga . I feel the pain of a child who wakes up every single morning to flying toilets. However, I also want you to feel the pain of a young woman who lives somewhere down Kitui where there is no access to roads and no water, but she has to go to school. Every single day we are called upon by our citizens to build water pans for them. We do not have any money allocated to us as Senators. However, you end up selling your cows so that you can put up a water pan for the people in Kilgoris because they are marginalized and also because somehow the sharable revenue which has been given to Narok County is not enough to build water pans everywhere. When you go to the second policy on marginalization, that small community would have got a water pan or a dispensary. If you look at the Ministry of Health policy in terms of where a dispensary should be built, you will be shocked. You have to have about 5,000 people for you to have a Level 1 Hospital. Where are you going to get those people in Mosiro? Where are you going to get those people in Narosora? You cannot. I think it is about time that instead of us behaving like we should be setting up a sinking fund of putting money where it does not even earn interest, we should unlock these funds to support those people for three reasons. I have met with so many people who spent their own money to build beautiful health facilities. They are like big white elephant projects now and these people were never paid anything. A lady came to see me in my home the other day and said: “Please, Senator, I took a loan. Please go and approve those regulations so that I can be paid my money.”"
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