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    "id": 1445810,
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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": "Although we are commending on a project that has already taken off, the train has already left the station and these people have already agreed. My hope is that if those headquarters in those five counties are not completed, when we discuss this here under conditional grants, we can allocate more funds. What the county governments and the Senate Committee on Finance and Budget has done should be commended. I commend the Chair for taking the initiative. Next time because I sit with the Chair and also the Vice-chair of the Senate Business Committee (SBC), we can try speed up this report. We should not come in and talk about projects that have already been completed. As I wrap up, we need to try to make sense and have things work in this country. You know this country is greater than all of us. We are like a passing cloud; all of us will come, die and be forgotten. It is about time that we rethink everything; all the policies and how we do things. We should have the future at a glance. In everything we do, we should ask ourselves whether we want to leave this country a better place than we found it or line our pockets and only worry about yourself. It is imperative that we think about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG No.16, which talks about accountability, and it is very current. All these things are happening today because people are concerned about equality, accessibility of services and good laws. Let us draft laws that will assist this country stand strong. We have a big challenge, but at the moment, I call upon every Kenyan to think of solutions and not always lament. It is good to lament, but if you lament and give a solution, it will eventually end up helping us. As we grapple with a new Kenya, I hope that all of us can give reason a chance. That we cannot only talk about the top, but also go down and deal with the issues of counties. There is a lot of misappropriation of funds in counties. It is about time that we realign our own existing resources and build our own economies. You know we have good perfect examples. Look at a country like Burkina Faso. The major industry in Burkina Faso is simply peanuts production; njugu karanga . The current leadership of that country is really changing things. You know opulence sometimes does not really help build an economy. So, since we have been given an opportunity to serve at this time, let us remember that Kenya will always stand. Kenya will always be there. Whatever we do, we do it to better the services. I hope that the Chair of the Committee on Finance and Budget can now look at all these other projects; the industrial parks which are co-shared by the national Government and the county governments. In Narok, we had one where Kenya Corporative Creameries (KCC) was given land to build a plant. Apart from the time when they came there to do the handover, nothing has ever been done. We are now going into another financial year. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is also imperative that the Chair of the Committee on Finance and Budget looks at budgets of each and every county government to see whether they are carried forward or that those projects are completed. In conclusion, we had a Motion that we passed in this House. Even though we do not have an Implementation Committee, I hope that as elected Senators, we can go through and see if the Controller of Budget, National Treasury and the county governments received and implemented the resolution of this House in terms of pending bills. 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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