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    "id": 1371802,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13199,
        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. From the onset, I stand in full support of this Bill. Having said that, I would also seek your protection from my colleagues. Yesterday in one of the committee meetings, I was told the Senator for Kisumu County addressed my Governor to the effect that he should prepare the books properly, so that when Sen. Wambua becomes the next governor, then things in Kitui will not be very bad. Today, you have had Sen. Cherarkey; my friend, referring to me as the next governor of Kitui County. I want to go on record and say, in the fullness of God's timing, the people of Kitui County will decide what they want. When they make that decision, then we can only follow. Today, we are here to prosecute serious business, on a very serious matter. I thank my friend, the Senator from Vihiga County, Sen. Osotsi, for coming up with such a Bill. I congratulate him because many of us are victims of great mischief. We have had experiences that border on gross impunity from both the National Executive and the Executives of our county governments. I would want to narrate a situation that I found myself in when we came back to the Senate in the year 2022. It will be remembered that around October of 2022, this country was undergoing a serious drought. Around that time, I raised a Statement on the Floor of this House on the drought mitigation measures that the Ministry of Agriculture was undertaking to save our people from imminent death due to starvation. One year down the line, up to around October, 2023, the Ministry of Agriculture declined invitations, and summons from the Standing Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries. My Statement was still pending, awaiting a response from the Cabinet Secretary (CS) in November of 2023, at a time that we were experiencing serious rainfall across the country. One day I was called and told that the CS was now coming to respond to my Statement one year later and the circumstances had completely changed. I said I was not going to aid the CS to insult my diligence and so, I dropped that Statement and withdrew my interest in it. Madam Temporary Speaker, these are the things that are making Sen. Osotsi think through the pain and the tribulation that committees of the Senate have endured from the Executives, both at the national Government and at the county levels."
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