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    "id": 1291939,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. From the onset, I want to support the sentiments of my colleagues who have contributed before me. I think as a country we must agree that there is a Kiswahili saying that says “ Mbuzi anakula kwa urefu wa kambayake.” Mr. Speaker, Sir, allow me with the indulgence of the Standing Orders. Why should you take somebody from Nairobi to nominate him in Garissa, Mandera, Nandi or Kericho county assemblies? We must be honest with ourselves. The biggest problem we see is in our county assemblies. It is not even in these other positions that we are talking about. Therefore, as parties, we must also be disciplined. I am a Member of the largest political party in Kenya and across Africa. Therefore, we should be careful because we have taken nominations as tokenism as opposed to competence and ability of our many MCAs. I have met people who sacrifice a lot for the party, but they did not get those nominations. I know in your former life, you used to be a party leader of a political party called Pamoja Alliance of Africa. So, we must learn and we have a sitting political party leader, my brother Sen. Governor of Mandera. As people who aspire to own or manage political parties, we should avoid this issue of tokenism. Your face value, how you walk, look like, talk and smile should be at the back stage because this is not a beauty contest. It is about the ability and competence. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as one of the greatest champions of the MCAs in this House, I want to assure you because I engage with MCAs most of the time. When we rectify these issues including the welfare of MCAs and other issues, we shall make our county assemblies to be bastions of representation, legislation, oversight, making plans and budget-making programmes within the county executive. I thank you."
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