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    "id": 1381804,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1381804/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 170,
        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, these huge counties will also promote national cohesion. The reason you hear so much push for affirmative action is ethnic group A feels they are marginalized and the dream of a nation by the 15 heroes who spoke in this House in 1963 when hon. Jomo Kenyatta was being sworn in as the Prime Minister is now getting diluted by devolution. Madam Temporary Speaker, this is why today there is competition for ethnic chiefs and kingpins because somebody wants to feel that he is the king of, for example, that little ethnic community because he has no national appeal at all. I was thinking about some national leaders today when the President was addressing the House. I was wondering that if this person lording over everybody around here is taken to a market in Homa Bay; let him alight from a matatu in a clean and expensive T-shirt and walk around; many people will start asking who that fellow is, yet he is the fellow who is claiming that he wants to lord it over all of us. It is because he has no national appeal. When you have national appeal, you do not have to go fight for an ethnic fiefdom. Madam Temporary Speaker, my last point is on dealing with corruption. If our counties are big in size and few in number, the village millionaires you are seeing these days will go down. What happens is that when you go to Kisii County, because the governor comes from this clan or this sub-tribe helps friends and relatives from his family. These days we have many rich village millionaires back at home. Some of them are not very well educated. Thanks to the corruption in the county. He gets to fix roads and has got money, but with no respect for human resource. For God's sake, human resource is found in highly trained people. That is what we call the most productive HR. For every job, the engineer has, it supports very many other jobs below him and that means he grows human resource capital. I am going to give it a shot after this Bill fails because fail it will. I will give it a shot and bring a Constitution amendment Bill so that we can send the country to a referendum. You saw that we were not in agreement when the Oversight Fund came because we were being unfair. What those of us who come from huge counties were given in the first quarter, did things because the money was reasonable. However, what you gave a smaller county is something they would, probably have done training on for the people they employed in their oversight structure. Let us think big, nationally and move the country forward to kill ethnic chauvinism and promote opportunities that will create jobs for our children. God has blessed me with several children. I have time for each of them and I found out that they share something in common. Our youths are not in this craze that older people have for land, where they want to grow maize or cotton. They are now wired differently. Therefore, let us use sharable revenue to ensure that we grow our economy, our opportunities and fix our unemployment. Finally, but not least. The Cabinet Secretary was here last week. He told us to go and ensure that governors have opened at least four strategic centres in each ward in your country, so that the Government can deliver and secure affordable fertilizer. You will not believe what is happening in some of the counties, Kakamega included. 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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