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    "id": 1462353,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "know he is a fellow ‘Subanese.’ I hope after this, he will pay homage to the National Treasury Building and give his prayers and blessings. I advise and encourage us to fast-track this Bill through the Senate Majority Leader, so that we cure this illegal unlawful and constitutional expense. The fifth point that I wanted to make is on the wage bill. I agree Members raised an issue. The minimum wage bill should be 35 per cent of the budget. We need to ensure we follow the law. By the way, there is challenges in the wage bill. I wish the entire Senate was here. Most of the county assemblies are ethnic conglomerates. If you go to Kisumu, Murang'a, Mandera or any part of this country, you will find that the majority are the natives. I encourage the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC), and the Chairperson of the Standing Committee on National Cohesion, Equal Opportunity and Regional Integration in this House to follow it up to ensure that we put in place mechanisms to address ethnic diversity within our counties. We cannot be blaming the national Government, yet when we retreat to county governments, it becomes a very big challenge. Counties assemblies are still struggling with staff establishment and ethnic balancing as per Article 10 of the 2010 Constitution of Kenya 2010 on ethnic diversity. Madam Temporary Speaker, when you re-organize the Order Paper, we are supposed to do the Division of Revenue (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bills No.38 of 2024). You know I can dispense legal wisdom from this Dispatch and legally and constitutionally, what the National Assembly did was unconstitutional and unlawful. You do not amend the budget with amending the DORB but now, we are putting the cat before the horse. On this Bill that we are discussing today, there is a lot of money that is going to the counties. I would like to remind governors that the way they take it with zeal and passion the money we allocate them, they should also take accountability with the same zeal and passion. I am disappointed that instead of my Governor, hon. Sang’, purchasing drugs, he decided to purchase jembe sticks and helmets and gave them to the young people and yet, we do not have the Kazi kwa Vijana Programme in Nandi. Madam Temporary Speaker, when people went to the streets to demand accountability for our resources, that should have challenged him but we are fighting here. I know the Senate Majority Leader will tell us to adopt the popular and convenient decision of cutting down because the Finance Bill 2024/2025 collapsed but every shilling matters, especially when I see Toi Market in Nairobi has no resources. Today, my Governor was in one of the local radio stations. There was a man called Adolf Hitler who had a minister for propaganda. They also say that a lie repeated continuously might grow legs and become a truth. That is what is happening in Nandi. Madam Temporary Speaker, on Tuesday, my people, the Gen Zs went on the streets in Kapsabet town to request for accountability. That is why we want accountability in Murang’a, where you come from. We want accountability from Homa Bay also. When we demand for accountability, it is not because we do not like the fact of the person that is there. When they went to those individuals looking for audit reports, I got shocked to hear my Governor in that vernacular radio station saying that Kapsengere Dispensary is complete in Aldai Sub-County. This is far from the truth. This dispensary has stalled. They had wanted to expand land there but the project stalled."
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