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    "id": 1238152,
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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": "The Senator of Tana River, Sen. Mungatana, you know you take too much milk in Nandi. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is a very good report by the Committee. They only failed in the recommendation. So, let us tidy it up, to make sure that we do not promote what has taken place for the last ten years. It is Prof. E.O. Wilson, the Prof. of Entomology who said that “parasitism is a beautiful relationship between two organisms, where the predator eats the prey in units smaller than one.’’ So, the parasitism that takes place on the dark streets of corruption, in the smoking rooms of corruption is the reason why this matter has dragged on for the last ten years. This is because the parasite, EACC which eats on the implementors of projects, they do not want to kill the projects. They want to be eating slowly by slowly. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with the kind of recommendations that you have given dear Chair of the Committee, you are now allowing the parasite called EACC to prey on this project. Talk of another five if not ten years. I remember ten years ago, when we were in this House, Prof. Kithure Kindiki, fought for the conditional grant, that then gave way for the construction of these headquarters. Today, ten years later, the dream of Prof. Kindiki and other leaders of the county has not been realised. It begs for the power of this Senate. The power of this Senate to oversight the use of units in counties has not been properly applied. If it had been applied, this problem that is today being unlocked by Sen. Gataya Mo Fire, would long have been solved. I, therefore, support and I wonder how Members of the County Assembly (MCAs), siting under a tree can oversight a governor who is controlling billions of shillings. Ten years ago, Tharaka Nithi, was given Kshs2.3 billion as sharable revenue. This has increased over the years to the latest audited accounts of 2019/2020. It has more than doubled to the extent that, during the ten years, Tharaka Nithi Government has controlled in excess of Kshs25 billion of sharable revenue. If you add on the other additional funds, this county government has controlled between Kshs35 billion and Kshs40 billion, that is meant to be oversighted under a tree."
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