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    "id": 1460802,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1460802/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nairobi City County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Esther Passaris",
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    "content": "When I think about it, I sometimes feel that, maybe, we need to sit down and revisit our Constitution. Do we really need 47 counties? Did we actually start this exorbitant expenditure when we passed our current Constitution where we decided to have so many counties? I was trying to draw a parallel with California. California has the population of Kenya and 150 elected representatives. Compare that with our 2,000 elected representatives. Probably, California has a GDP of the entire continent of Africa. In Kenya, we are over-represented. California has chief executive officers running the various boroughs that they have within their State. We need to look quickly at whether our laws are adequate when it comes to fighting corruption. The former President said we lost Ksh2 billion daily, which comes to about Ksh700 billion in a year. We need money to be able to get this country right. If we deal with corruption, we will have solved that problem. Are we allocating money to deal with corruption? Are we putting appropriate structures in place to deal with corruption? If we are not, we are going to have a problem. I saw some video clips running on social media after we did the vetting in which many people questioned the wealth of many of the people who were vetted. I, too, wonder how people make that kind of money. I have had businesses that collapsed and others that have done well but, I do not want that kind of wealth. I do not want that kind of wealth because, at the end of the day, it is ridiculous for one person to be worth so much and yet the only job they have ever had is being a public servant. That is like throwing eggs on the faces of the people who have elected us to work here on their behalf."
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