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    "id": 1445837,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1445837/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13219,
        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
        "slug": "erick-okongo-mogeni"
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    "content": "generations will remember that Senator So-and-so is the one who left behind this beautiful county headquarters. We remember the late President Mwai Kibaki for the Thika Super Highway. We will remember President Uhuru Kenyatta for the Express Way. Maybe President William Ruto will also do something that we will remember him for. You, as a governor, what do you want to be remembered for? My Governor in Nyamira County, what do you want to be remembered for? That Gen Zs came to demonstrate against you? No. You should be remembered that you took over; four years into your administration, you did something. If there is no Manga Stadium and there is no county headquarters, what will the people of Nyamira County remember you for? Madam Temporary Speaker, I commend the Chairperson and encourage him to have further discussion with the Inter-Governmental Relations Technical Committee (IGRTC) to give priority to the governors of these five respective counties to prioritise these projects, complete them and as a good way of appreciating our Chairman, they complete these projects while he is still the Senator. I know the people of Mandera may give him a second term but it will be a good thing if they can finalise these projects during his first tenure as the Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Finance and Budget and the he can invite us to go open these projects. This marking scheme does not reflect very well on us as a country. We have so many grants that go to our counties. Like us, we are receiving about Kshs150 million to support agriculture. However, if the report we have is that counties do not have capacity to implement projects, how will our donors be encouraged to give us money? I plead with our friends, the chief executives in counties, to style up, transform our counties, complete our hospitals and do our roads. I do not think that we came up with counties, so that we can have murram roads. I also want to walk to my County of Nyamira and tell my people that my governor, whom I have worked so hard to ensure that he gets money from Nairobi, has done even five kilometres of tarmac. We do not want to go to counties and all that we can see is murram roads. What we are seeing in this county headquarters issue is replicated in water projects. I was looking through the audit report for Nyamira County. You find beautiful projects identified. You will be told that the county government will do 20 boreholes, one in each ward but when the auditor is doing an assessment, he says that there was no proper use of money. That there was no value for money for the people of Nyamira County because the boreholes were sunk, but no electricity was connected, no solar, no piping to homes and he returns a verdict and says that there was no value for money for the people of Nyamira County. He says that a borehole called Nyandoche Ibere in Nyansiongo Ward was drilled, but nothing happened. It is a ghost project. You go to another project in the same sub- county and find the same report; Kshs17 million spent, no connection of pipes to homes, and therefore, no value for money to the people of Nyamira County. Madam Temporary Speaker, if you drill a borehole, connect pipes to homes, tell the people that I have supplied you with water so, support me to sustain the project by paying for the water that you are consuming. That is the only way that devolution will have meaning to our people. 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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