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    "id": 1289302,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "– the former governor, Chairperson of Committee on Finance and Budget and United Democratic Movement (UDM) Party Leader – there is a song that states, “here comes the conqueror and lion.” I do not know whether in his time as Governor, Sen. Ali Roba, benefited from the World Bank support through Kenya Settlement Infrastructural Programme. World Bank should be keen. Kapsabet Town, the headquarters of Nandi County, got some amount in the last financial year that was meant for road network improvement. However, there are still roads in Kapsabet Town that are impassable. We were given money by the World Bank to build footpaths. I know that Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale passes through Kapsabet when going to Kakamega County. The roads built have been washed away by rain because of the substandard works. The pathways are so narrow that two dogs cannot pass at the same time, let alone human beings. I urge the partners to put in place evaluation and monitoring units. I challenge Sen. Ali Roba, who was a Governor before, that outside the issue of allocating and processing Bills, advise the Senate on how to effectively monitor the resources we give to Governors. We only discuss about the audited revenue. I submitted a memorandum to the National Dialogue Committee. There were machismo issues to do with the term limit. However, inside my ‘earth-shaking’ proposal to the National Dialogue Committee – they declined my request to appear because they knew I would tell Kenyans the truth. I proposed an increment of allocation to counties, from 15 per cent to 40 per cent. I want more resources to go to Bomet County, so that the county leadership can perform optimally. I also proposed that this House be made the upper house in a bicameral parliamentary system and ensure we have the power to veto Bills. The National Assembly rejected our amendments to a Bill the other day. I hope they will not reject amendments to this Bill because Sen. Ali Roba has proposed several. These are the issues I raised in the memoranda. I expected the National Dialogue Committee to drink from my wisdom. Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale and Sen. Mungatana are senior legislators in this House. I proposed that we can either proceed with the presidential system or adopt a parliamentary system of Government. Also, we can agree on a hybrid system. Some of the proposals we made were on strengthening devolution, not to mention the issues of seven years. A seven-year term for the President is good because you finish your five years, and proceed for another 15 years in power to have a total of 19 years. The chicken seller is in the office and the son of the chang’aa brewer would like to be President. Also, the herder from northern Kenya has ambitions to this direction. They should be happy that I am giving concrete proposals, that is, 19 years in power. As I conclude, I commend the Committee on Finance and Budget. This is the Committee of the year. This is a Committee that does a lot of work outside the Committee on County Public Accounts where I am the Vice Chairperson. We are the number one Committee followed by the Committee on Finance and Budget as the Committees of the year. We could be at a draw because of the way they process their Bills. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard Services,Senate."
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