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    "id": 1382061,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1382061/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13217,
        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
        "slug": "cherarkey-k-samson"
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    "content": "Where I come from, East of Karebe Goldmine, we had problems where a community in Chemase was not getting anything through community development agreement, where you have communities through 70 per cent to national Government, 20 per cent to county government and 10 per cent to the local community. I challenge county governments to ensure the money that we devolve is used for the intended purposes. Let us all in Elgeyo Marakwet, Baringo, Meru, Laikipia and other counties ensure resources work. If there is development, this menace of cattle rustling and banditry will stop. If we ensure those areas are open, this menance will stop. I challenge county governments to spend their money for the intended purposes. They are called hardship areas. However, most of these counties are struggling because of where they are, but they get a lot of money. Are you aware Meru, Turkana, outside Kakamega, Garissa, Isiolo counties and many other areas get more than Kshs15 billion while Nandi County gets Kshs7.5 billion? When you ask questions, they find it uncomfortable. I challenge them. I saw individuals from Garissa County trying to answer me for raising questions about, for example, non-access to water in Garissa County. We have only one water bowser that supplies close to one million people in Garissa County. There is no water in Garissa County. When you go to the former provincial general hospital in Garissa, there is no water. I questioned it. I was shocked that the county government and the Governor sponsored a lot of news media items over the weekend, while I was busy in Nandi County serving my people. I tell all governors, including the Governor from Kisii County, a Senator is not only to oversight his own county. You can decide to oversight Nandi County. We have a right to oversight all 47 counties."
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