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    "id": 1226026,
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    "speaker_name": "Ugenya, MDG",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Ochieng’",
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        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
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    "content": "those counties, the goats died within a week or two. That is because they were giving breeder goats to people who have never bred goats in their lives. They were giving dairy cows to people who have never had dairy cows in their lives. Since we do not have good extension services, most of those cows died and there was nothing people could do about it. That is why I wish we could extend more money in that regard. Finally, I wish we could get more money, especially from the Sports Fund if possible, and extend special grants to the counties to enable us develop constituency academies. I shudder to imagine how many people would travel from my place in Ugenya to watch a football match in Siaya at the county headquarters. So many people would travel all the way from Lugari to watch a football match in Kakamega stadium. How many people are going to travel all the way from Nyakach near Nandi to watch matches or practise in Kisumu stadium? We need to put more money in sports and, if counties have no money, I beg that this Assembly allocates a conditional grant to them. This should be done especially so to county-based and ward-based sports academies that would take account of all the sports like basketball, sprinting, volleyball, netball and many others. It would be very good for those, especially from western Kenya, who would excel in those sports because this is the future of the country. I also request the counties that, as we give them this money, they must insist to the national Government... Let them not go into areas where the national Government is supposed to fund. I have been seeing counties putting so much money in bursaries for university and high school students and yet, they know that their mandate is on the Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) level. That is the foundation of education. Fund that one first. We want to see our children having meals in schools and staying in school in those villages. Do not come here and tell us we have given all our students university bursaries and yet, the children who are five, six to seven years who needed your services – whose services have been devolved – are not being taken care of. Build enough ECDE facilities, feed those children and make their parents feel that they are part of those counties. Sometimes, I wonder! We had a very good system of county governance. But when people become governors, I do not know where their minds go to. Even the best that we have had we want to do things for the camera and please other people. I wish we could do serious things that make us happy at the end of the day because we touched and changed the lives of the people that we lead but not because we took a selfie. Hon. Speaker, I support. Thank you."
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