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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen, (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. We are not strangers to why we amended the Constitution to create county governments. It appears like the two ladies who have sat in this office had a brief from wherever to ensure that it fails. The moment they came in, they pretended to understand devolution to the extent that the Senator of Nairobi, who has 17 constituencies under him, and the Senator of Kakamega and Kiambu, who have 12 constituencies each, are rated at the same level with a Member of Parliament in one of the constituencies. This arrogance is what they have taken to the county assemblies. The way they belittle Senators is the same way they are belittling MCAs. A chef in a five-star hotel in Nairobi earns Kshs87,000 while an MCA earns Kshs86,000. How many hotels do you have in a ward where an MCA presides over? An MCA earns Khs86,000 and a principal of a high school in this country earns Kshs190,000. How many high schools do we have in a ward represented by an MCA? The issue of travelling allowance; to move from Munabi in Matungu Constituency to the other end of Kakamega in Moi’s Bridge, is 200 kilometres. The MCA has to drive from his home in Moi’s Bridge to Kakamega Town which is 130 kilometres and he cannot make a claim. MCAs have been forced to run away from their homes. They do not sleep at home because when people come in the morning, they have no money to spend on them. The MCA of Shieyewe Ward in Kakamega County has a ward which has a bigger voting population than 20 per cent of all the constituencies of Kenya. That kind of person cannot represent people. We have to come out. We are lucky we are in the Senate. We are not unlucky like them. We have the highest platform in the country. Let us do all that it will take up to and including---. I want to speak as the Chief Whip, we can choose to take a position that we will not pass a critical Bill like the Division of Revenue Bill until the welfare of MCAs is addressed."
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