{"id":1300354,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1300354/?format=json","text_counter":452,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":170,"legal_name":"Bonny Khalwale","slug":"bonny-khalwale"},"content":"Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I thank Sen. Omogeni for giving me the honour to second this very important Motion. When this Committee was constituted, there was a lot of suspicion and bad blood between the two sides at the dialogue. With time, things have normalized and therefore, it gives me a lot of pleasure to be seconding a Motion that gives them an opportunity to conclude, make the product hygienic and even better. Madam Temporary Speaker, I will not dwell too much on it because of the interest of time. I want to give five minutes to Sen. Cherarkey to say something, two minutes and two minutes. I applaud all the people who have made presentations with special acknowledgement to the presentation by Prof. Githu Muigai, a man we respect in this country. He spoke to the issue of the cost of running Government. Under the new Constitution, the cost of running Government is too high. I am persuaded that we do not need 47 counties. We need to make big counties that are economically viable."}