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    "id": 1445772,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1445772/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Methu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13581,
        "legal_name": "Methu John Muhia",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also rise to support this Report by the Committee on Finance and Budget on the status of implementation of projects that were funded by conditional grants for construction of county headquarters. One of the counties that was a beneficiary of these conditional grants was my County of Nyandarua. The reason this was mooted in this House was to address the inequities in five counties that have been mentioned here. These are Lamu, Isiolo, Tana River, Nyandarua and Tharaka-Nithi. After hiving off, either their old district headquarters were taken to other places or they never enjoyed having headquarters of former provinces. One good example was Nyandarua County whose old district headquarters was in Nyahururu. In the new dispensation of the counties, Nyahururu became part of Laikipia. We were forced to have a new county headquarters, that is, Ol Kalou, which did not have Government facilities. However, just as it has been correctly noted by the Committee on Finance and Budget, this brilliant idea that was mooted in 2017 has taken inordinately long to have it implemented or come to fruition. In the case of Nyandarua, the contract for the establishment of the county headquarters was signed in March 2020. Close to five years later, not much has been achieved. As at now, only 55 per cent of the county headquarters has been done. 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 and Audio Services,Senate."
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