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    "id": 1227594,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 170,
        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. It is indeed a privilege for me to stand here and thank God that when I cast my eyes across the House, I see only two people who were there on day one of the Second Senate which is the First Senate in this generation. It was the Clerk, Mr. Nyegenye and I, who were in this House. We are the only ones surviving from that generation. So, we thank God. Having thanked God, I want to thank the Senate Majority Leader and ask the Clerk, as the CEO of the PSC: Did you really put thought into this process? Are we not the real problem? How can you say that this is a great day when we have demeaned ourselves? We are reducing celebrations of a national institution that changed the trajectory of development in this country; that brought tarmacs for the first time in this country. Built level four and five hospitals, teaching and referrals hospitals for the first time in this country. Yet we are celebrating it through a Motion late in the evening. Today, life should have come to a standstill in the entire Senate, so that we celebrate this day in a proper manner. We are demeaning ourselves. I challenge the CEO, who is none other than the Clerk, that they have failed us. I challenge the Speaker and the Senate Majority Leader. The resources are there. I know for a fact there is nobody in the current Government who would not have supported a proper celebration of this Senate. Having said that, I want to tell Senators that we should temper this agitation for more funds to the county governments. Temper it with questions like: When we send the money, what do you do with it? Ten years ago, Sen. (Dr.) Oburu, we gave devolved units Kshs210 billion. This year, we are going to give them Kshs385 billion. If you had gone to each and every one of those counties, tens ears ago, the governors came out of their starting blocks like bullets. You would find something innovative here and there, but with the years, it has gone down. Now, our county governments are employment bureaus that employ friends and relatives of governors. Let us insist that the money that is going to county governments should be for development and it should meet the mandatory 30 per cent provision in the County Governments Act. Madam Temporary Speaker, I do not want to speak for long. I am so proud of you. I know for sure that this little resistance that you are getting from here and there will end with time because in these ten years Senators have become MCAs; MCAs have"
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