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    "id": 1238106,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "now we have elected representatives of the people sitting under trees to deliberate on public issues. What a shame? I do not want to cast aspersions on anyone but when a Senator – I am not naming any person – sits in the office of the Senate in their county, it is their responsibility to bring to the fore things that are happening in their county because all matters are local. There is nothing called a national issue. All issues are local. It is the responsibility of Senators to bring their issues to the national level for debate as the Senator of Tharaka Nithi County has done. The shame that the people of Tharaka Nithi County are suffering today, the same shame is being felt in Meru, Kitui, Mombasa and every other county in this country where devolution is supposed to be working. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in conclusion, even as we adopt the Report of the Committee, this Senate needs to have a serious conversation with the EACC. We need to have a serious conversation so that we know where their work begins and ends; and where development begins. They cannot always come to your county when you are doing something and take away files. There is a speech that they are using and I have heard the Committee refer to it. Once they take the files and stop construction or any project, when you push them, they say; “We have not said that you cannot continue.” Who wants to continue putting their money on a project that the EACC has already cast aspersions on? The investigations by the EACC on any public institution and construction of any project must be fast-tracked, so that within a month or two, they give you a verdict on whether the construction will continue or be stopped. With those few remarks, I support the Report."
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