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    "id": 1381802,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "I saw Sen. Mungatana get provoked when he candidly said that you have to do it from a different platform. If you expect to change boundaries using political statements from the National Assembly and the Senate in Nairobi, the Turkana will not listen to you. The people of Lwandeti Market will wonder what is wrong with Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale to imagine that he can change their boundary. He got provoked. I will contribute on that thought-provoking journey. If that is the case, then I beg my colleagues that today we are here and tomorrow we will not be here. We will have been replaced by young people. If God will have blessed us with a long life, we will be sitting back and enjoying those young people building on our foundation. I am convinced that this Bill should be stood down because it might pass here and flop in the National Assembly. We should stand it down and get a better fix. The better fix is that we should go back to the people with a Constitutional Amendment Bill with the following intentions. We have all lived devolution today and know that all our 47 counties, with a few exceptions, are employment bureaus. There is nothing the governors are doing. With due respect to the Senator for Vihiga, when I look at the development budget of Vihiga County, I wonder why he blames the Governor for not doing flagship projects. Where will he get the money from? Madam Temporary Speaker, when I look at the budget of Lamu, Isiolo, Tharaka- Nithi, Tana River, Nandi, name them all; they will never do development. They just employ people in order to massage the egos of politicians to say that they have employed many youths and that kind of nonsense. That will not fix what we wanted devolution to do. I propose that we amend the Constitution of Kenya to reduce counties by, first, removing Nairobi from being referred to as a county. Nairobi is the common-wealth, the unifying factor and the Capital City of the Republic of Kenya. If you go to the United States of America (USA) where there are 52 States, there is Washington DC, where they have put their monuments, museums and the centre of power. The seat of power, Capitol Hill, is in Washington DC. This is what we should let Nairobi be. Madam Temporary Speaker, I know the distinguished Senator for Nairobi will not run out of a job because he can win in many other counties in this country. I will not The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard Services, Senate."
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