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    "id": 1381459,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 407,
        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Kenyans to be given an opportunity to serve their country without considering which clan or tribe they come from, hence, giving them an opportunity. The thing that destroys the concept of governance in this country is the nonsense called clannism and tribalism. People in Kenya talk about something called state capture. In Narok County, we have family capture where one family, that of the Governor Patrick Ole Ntutu, is the one that calls all the shots in the county and gets all the contracts. It is sad that I come from the same clan as the Governor for Narok. I am ashamed because if you go to Narok County, the entire human resource currently is from my clan. Where does he put all the other clans that exist in Narok? You find a tug of war on a daily basis between brothers, who speak the same language and who when they get sick tomorrow, will need each other to donate blood. The Governor has completely ignored meritocracy and decided to put everyone who is from his clan. Every single contract in Narok County is given to members of the family. If today someone dies and the county government decides to donate money, like what happened recently when a Member of County Assembly (MCA) died, the Governor of Narok donated about Kshs2.5 million. However, the tent was provided by a family member. So, Kshs600,000 went to pay for the tent and Kshs170,000 went to pay for security, all of whom were from the same clan. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this Bill is long overdue. It will ensure that we carry out specific audits of human resources. We want to know every single person employed in every single county government. This Bill complements another Bill, sponsored mostly by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. However, I do not subscribe to their thinking on the issue of conflict of interest. When the framers of the Constitution brought about Article 232, this is what they had in mind. Framers of the Constitution had the future generations in mind. Today, we focus a lot on the girl-child. Every single project out there is to defend the girl-child. In this country, including in this House, we talk about the two-thirds gender rule. When we discuss about it, there is only one thing that comes to our mind; the female gender. It is because of the cultural context where women have been treated as second- class citizens and been left behind."
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