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    "id": 1469969,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kawira Mwangaza",
    "speaker_title": "The Governor of Meru County",
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        "legal_name": "Kawira Mwangaza Mwenda",
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    "content": " From the first impeachment, the issues raised were about the first gentleman of Meru County. We discussed as a family and agreed that he will never participate in any county meeting apart from accompanying me to the church. This was to make sure that the MCAs are comfortable with me. The issue of first gentleman appeared in this Senate. We, therefore, sat as a family and agreed that it was over for him attending any meetings that pertained to the county. Again, I thought it was the issue of money because it was raised in this Senate. The first financial year, that is 2022/2023, we allocated Kshs10 million per every ward on the equalisation or ward fund. They call it ward fund. They said it was not enough. I went ahead and increased it by Kshs5 million up to Kshs15 million. Again, they said that the money was not enough and wanted more money. This financial year, we have given every ward that Kshs33 million to see if at all there will be peace in Meru County. I took those two steps as early as I realized that there were issues with the MCAs. There is also an issue raised that I should have stopped my programmes that I do with the church. That is the Okolea programme where we go as a church and donate cows, blankets and mattresses to the poor. Again, the MCAs and the leadership was not happy with the programme. They said I should stop it and not continue doing anything to do with the charity work in Meru County. For the sake of unity and bringing people together, I stopped my charity work that I have been doing for the last 15 years. I have taken many steps to see that we work together, including writing to the Standing Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations of this Senate to come to Meru County and see what is the problem. I wrote twice to the committee, but to my surprise, I am still waiting to see if they will come and see the issues that are ailing Meru County. Immediately after that second impeachment, I went across Meru County, saying sorry if I had wronged anyone. In fact, at one point, I said sorry 70 times, each sorry for every MCA and another one for the Speaker. I asked for forgiveness so that the county would take progress. I want to thank this honourable House for the advice that they gave me to go and try and sit with every leader. I started with the Njuri Ncheke. I went to them and they asked for a sitting. We sat and talked, and then amended everything that was not going well. I sat with the Members of Parliament (MPs) and every leader in Meru County. The only person who did not avail himself for a sitting to see that Meru County moves forward is the hon. Senator of this House. We have sat and talked with the rest. We have no issues at all."
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